Wake Not the Dead
A Gothic, Fiction, Horror book. Wake not the Dead: - they bring but gloomy nightAnd cheerless desolation into dayFor in the grave...
Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who was part of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Tieck's transition to Romanticism is seen in the series of plays and stories published under the title Volksmarchen von Peter Lebrecht (1797), a collection which contains the admirable fairy-tale Der Blonde Eckbert, and the witty dramatic satire on Berlin literary taste, Der Gestiefelte Kater. With his school and college friend Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773-1798), he planned the novel Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen (1798), which, with Wackenroder's Herzensergiessungen (1798), was the first expression of the romantic enthusiasm for old German art. His writings between 1798 and 1804 include the satirical drama, Prinz Zerbino (1799), and Romantische Dichtungen (1799-1800). The latter contains Tieck's most ambitious dramatic poems, which were followed in 1804 by the remarkable "comedy" in two parts, Kaiser Oktavianus. These dramas, in which Tieck's poetic powers are to be seen at their best, are typical plays of the first Romantic school.
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- Pages: 48 pages
- ISBN: 9781406539295 / 1406539295
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Wake not the Dead: - they bring but gloomy nightAnd cheerless desolation into dayFor in the grave who mouldering lay,No more can feel the influence of light,Or yield them to the sun's prolific might;Let them repose within their house of clay - Corruption, wilt thou vainly e'er essayTo quicken: - it sends forth a prest'lent blight;And neither fiery sun, nor bathing dew,Nor breath of Spring the dead can e'er renew.That which from life is pluck'd, becomes the foeOf life, and whoso wakes it waketh woe.Seek not the dead to waken from that sleepIn which from... With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possiblybe on this side of the grave. Ludwig Tieck, Wake Not the Dead //
(More like 3.5 stars). Considered as the first vampire story (I haven't found a reliable academic source for that claim yet, but it's certainly circling widely around the internet), Tieck's tale of a female bloodsucker is essentially about Walter's torment of thinking grass is always greener on the other side. The inability to decide... I may have liked it more if the prose was a little less... purple. Thinking, since Tieck was German, it might be the translation to blame, I tried to find the original... Only to find that apparently Tieck had nothing to do with translation or original; instead, it's ascribed to Ernst Raupach. (But I still haven't found the text of... A beautiful, haunting, amazingly well-written story, true to the origins and purpose of the vampire legend. One could say it contained elements of a greek tragedy, with Walter's destructive passion being his hubris against the natural order of things and the ending of the story being the reader's catharsis. A horror story of impeccable...
