Ludwig Tieck

Ludwig Tieck was born in Berlin and became a leading figure of early German Romanticism. He wrote fairy-tale comedies, novellas and lyric poems, and edited the works of other Romantic writers.

James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) translated this poet in his German Anthology (1845); the poems here are his English versions, as reprinted in Poems, ed. John Mitchel (New York, 1859).