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Weltschmerz

synonyms for Weltschmerz

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Have the Zeitgeist and the Weltschmerz and the other things compared to which ‘le spleen’ was gay, done so much for us?

The work which is presented in the following pages is intended to be a modest contribution to the natural history of Weltschmerz.

This is entirely compatible with the definition of Weltschmerz which has been attempted above.

The second bearing which his relations to Louise have upon his Weltschmerz lies in the fact that his love ended in disappointment.

Hence the difference between the pessimism of Ibsen and the romantic Weltschmerz of these uncritical minds.

It is not only the poetic climax of his Hellenism, but also the most complete expression of his Weltschmerz in its various phases.

So far as we may judge from his lyrics, very little of Lenau's Weltschmerz was inspired by patriotic considerations.

And it is in this light only that Werther's malady deserves in any comprehensive sense the term Weltschmerz.

Consequently his Weltschmerz loses in breadth what through the depth of the poet's introspection it gains in intensity.

But we have already distinguished between pessimism as a system of philosophy, and Weltschmerz as a poetic mood.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985