Packet 4: Bonus 12

The speaker wonders about two black colts who wear out their glittering horseshoes in front of a corpse in this author’s poem “Remember It, My Soul.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this German Lutheran pastor and Romantic poet who wrote the lyric poems “It is He” and “September Morning” as well as the “Peregrina” cycle. This man also wrote the novella Mozart on the Way to Prague.
ANSWER: Eduard Mörike
[10m] Mörike’s poem “Divine Remembrance” quotes a figure with this name who wrote “All things were made by him.” A man with this name is the speaker of a Friedrich Hölderlin poem that begins “God is near / Yet hard to seize.”
ANSWER: John [accept John the Evangelist or John of Patmos] (The Hölderlin poem is “Patmos.”)
[10e] Mörike’s poem “Schön Rotraut” is in this form, which “communalists” like Johann Herder thought to be collectively composed. The song “Mack the Knife” exemplifies a type of this form named for “murder.”
ANSWER: ballads [or balladen; accept murder ballads]
<Editors, European Literature> | M. Playoffs 4 (Editors 4)

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