"Weltschmerz" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inspiration; on love and poetry; on Alice Meynell; on Viola Meynell; on the poet's body; expression; grief; habitat; loneliness; morals; youth Thomson, James, Thomson, James (B.V.), his atheism; on Mrs. Browning; on inspiration; on pessimistic poetry; on Platonic love; on Shelley; on Tasso; on Weltschmerz Timrod, Henry, Tolstoi, Count Leo, Towne, Charles Hanson, ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins
... modern, careless of fame and scornful of his time? Could it be possible that in the eleventh century, so far away as Khorassan, so accomplished a man of letters lived, with such distinction, such breadth, such insight, such calm disillusion, such cheerful and jocund despair? Was this Weltschmerz, which we thought a malady of our day, endemic in Persia in 1100? My doubt lasted only till I came upon a literal translation of the Rubaiyat, and I saw that not the least remarkable quality of Fitzgerald's was its fidelity to the original. ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various |
