Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . He returned to Husumin 1864, where he held the position of land-vogt until 1880. He then retired to his country home in Holstein; and some of his most delightful work wasproduced in his old age. Storm led the most uneventful of lives: happy in his family andconscientious in his official duties. In his literary work there isvery curiously an ever-returning undertone of sadness, of lost hopes,of disappointed lives. He began his literary career as lyric poet,—by^ Liederbuch Dreier Freunde ^ (Song-Book of Three Friends), a smallvolume pu
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . He returned to Husumin 1864, where he held the position of land-vogt until 1880. He then retired to his country home in Holstein; and some of his most delightful work wasproduced in his old age. Storm led the most uneventful of lives: happy in his family andconscientious in his official duties. In his literary work there isvery curiously an ever-returning undertone of sadness, of lost hopes,of disappointed lives. He began his literary career as lyric poet,—by^ Liederbuch Dreier Freunde ^ (Song-Book of Three Friends), a smallvolume published in 1843 ii^ conjunction with Tycho and TheodorMommsen. By their truth to nature and their simple pathos thesepoems promised to place Storm high among German lyric poets, hadnot his growing fame as story-teller led him to cultivate prose at theexpense of poetry. His first great success was <Immen-see,^ publishedin 1850. Even to-day it is one of the most popular and best knownof his works. It is a story of reminiscence, — an old man going back. Theodor Storm 14040 THEODOR STORM to his youth to live over again, in the twilight hour, the days of hisyoung lost love. This harking back to bygone times runs more orless through all of Storms work. It determines the form,—a taletold in the first person by an elderly speaker; and it colors the spirit,toning it down to the gray of sorrows outlived but not and resignation are the watchwords of most of hisstories. With his return home in 1864, a new and the most fruitful periodof his work began, marked by a great advance in characterizationand in firmness of touch; he is also more dramatic: ^ In St. Jiirgen ^is an example. He next tried the artist novel, a favorite type withGerman writers. ^ Psyche,^ published in 1875, has been especiallypraised by German critics. Some of his strongest work was done inthe so-called chronicle novels,— romantic tales with a historic back-ground, delineating North Germa
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