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- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 17:39:36 EST
- From: Randy Kloko <rkk@mail.lib.duke.edu>
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- Subject: Klopstocks Fruehlingsfeyer
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- A question about Klopstock's ode "Die Fruehlingsfeyer"
- (1759; revised 1771): has anyone connected it with Kant's
- theory of the nebular origin of planets (c. 1755)?
- In the fourth strophe:
- "Da aus der Hand des Allmaechtigen
- Die groessern Erden quollen,
- Da die Stroeme des Lichts
- Rauschten, und Orionen wurden..."
- which seems to suggest a synthesis of the Genesis account
- and
- Kant's
- theory that the planets formed from stellar dust. The fifth
- strophe ends with
- "Mehr, als die Orionen,
- Die aus Strahlen zusammenstroemten!"
-
- In the 1771 version, a strophe is interposed which reads
- "Da ein Strom des Lichts rauscht', und unsre Sonne
- wurde!
- Ein Wogensturz sich stuertze wie vom Felsen
- Der Wolk' herab, und den Orion guertete..."
-
- Just curious as to whether anyone had heard such an
- interpretation, or knew where to start looking to find an
- answer.
-
- Randy Kloko
- Special Collection Library
- Duke University
-