. Tannhäuser : a dramatic poem by Richard Wagner. language and lit-erature of Germany. The Horselberg, where according to traditionis situated the cave of Venus, is a long, deeplyfurrowed ridge (about one thousand five hun-dred and seventy-five feet high), some ten ortwelve miles from Eisenach and the Wart-burg. The personages described in the song contestare historical. Wolfram von Eschenbach wasa knightly champion of Christianity and of thevirtues of woman. Walther von der Vogelweidewas a Tyrolean poet of renown. Reimar and Bi-terolf were also notable poets of their ^re are some unusua
. Tannhäuser : a dramatic poem by Richard Wagner. language and lit-erature of Germany. The Horselberg, where according to traditionis situated the cave of Venus, is a long, deeplyfurrowed ridge (about one thousand five hun-dred and seventy-five feet high), some ten ortwelve miles from Eisenach and the Wart-burg. The personages described in the song contestare historical. Wolfram von Eschenbach wasa knightly champion of Christianity and of thevirtues of woman. Walther von der Vogelweidewas a Tyrolean poet of renown. Reimar and Bi-terolf were also notable poets of their ^re are some unusually fine poetic touchesdrama. Recall Tannhauser in thrall to Ve-the underworld, longing to hear the songUs and once more to suffer pain. NoticeVenus has real love and womanly feeling,ice also that Tannhausers cry to the Vir-is the only means of breaking the note the contrast between the red revelsof the halls of Venus and the green valleys be-fore the Wartburgwhere the sheep-bells the pomp and circumstance of the medie-xii. val contest. Recall Wolframs ode to the even- Jf otting star. Remember Tannhausers return from fajgrj)Rome, and the contest of his feelings, —oneof the most intensely tragic pieces of writing inall dramatic literature. Recall that fine touch,—the sainted Elizabeth, dead, is still the guard-ian angel of this poor wanderer. Fine fancy ina hundred places shows Wagner the poet. Re-call that striking appeal, — Elizabeths earnestprayer for the salvation of Tannhauser. Al-though struck to the heart by more than mor-tal wound, Elizabeth thinks first of him: Whatmatters it to me? But he, his salvation! Wouldyou rob him of his eternal salvation? Has notWagner here wrought with the stroke of ge-nius? The opening of the drama has two versions,called the Dresden and the Parisian latter is a much fuller revelation of thecharacter of Venus; it is usually the one nowused, and seemed best liked by Wagner. Thedrama also has two ending
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