Poetic Realism

literature
Also known as: poetischer Realismus

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  • expression by Ludwig
    • In Otto Ludwig

      …the expression poetischer Realismus (“poetic Realism”), later used to describe the writing of many of his contemporaries.

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  • representation by Storm
    • In Theodor Woldsen Storm

      …an outstanding representative of German poetic Realism, which had as its aim the portrayal of the positive values of everyday life. He took for his models the late Romantics and Eduard Mörike, who, along with Gottfried Keller, Paul von Heyse, and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, was his friend and…

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development in

    • Danish literature
      • Jelling stone
        In Danish literature: Poetic Realism

        New elements of reason and realism appeared after the first quarter of the century in the works of Poul Møller, who wrote the first Danish novel on contemporary life, En dansk students eventyr (1824; “The Adventures of a Danish Student”), as well as…

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    • Swedish literature
      • Stiernhielm
        In Swedish literature: Emergence of realism and Poetic Realism

        Poetic Realism became an official program of the “pseudonym poets” of the 1860s, including Carl David of Wirsén, Edvard Bäckström, Pontus Wikner, and Carl Snoilsky. Only Snoilsky had the temperament and poetic gift needed to carry out the program. Wirsén, on the other hand, as…

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