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- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
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- Helen Maria Williams (1762–1827; Scottish/Welsh)
- André Chénier (1762–1794; French)
- Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843; German)
- Sophie Mereau (1770–1806; German)
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850; English)
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Sophie Mereau (1770–1806; German)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part
- Part
- Helen Maria Williams (1762–1827; Scottish/Welsh)
- André Chénier (1762–1794; French)
- Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843; German)
- Sophie Mereau (1770–1806; German)
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850; English)
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
Summary
The daughter of a ducal secretary, Sophie Friederike Schubart published poems as early as 1791 in Schiller’s journal Thalia. In 1793 she married Ernst Carl Mereau, a law professor; the marriage was unhappy and ended in divorce in 1801. In Jena she met not only Schiller but the Schlegel circle, the center of German Romanticism; at the home of Caroline Schlegel she met Clemens Brentano in 1798 (see p. x), and married him in 1804. She died in childbed.
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- Romanticism: 100 Poems , pp. 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021