page_title: Ernst Schulze (poet)
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Ernst Schulze (poet) / Work
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Titelblatt der Buchausgabe von Ernst Schulze: Gedichte. Göttingen 1813
context_page_description: Ernst Conrad Friedrich Schulze was a German Romantic poet. He was born and died in Celle.
context_section_description: He was the author of many poems, among them a Poetisches Tagebuch (Poetic Diary), ten of the poems from which were set to music as lieder by Franz Schubert. Musician Graham Johnson proposes to group these settings by Schubert as a song cycle which he called Auf den wilden Wegen. The autobiographical information contained therein, in poetic form, came about largely under the influence of his engagement to Cäcilie Tychsen, and her subsequent death. Her early demise, in whose memory his epic Cäcilia (1818) was written, clouded all of his later life.
  Typical of this influence is a reference in Um Mitternacht (1815), subsequently set to music by Schubert:
  Whilst the vast majority of his writings are Romantic in style and mainly in allegorical form, other poems, such as Lebensmut ('Courage'), were written as a result of his time as a volunteer in the fight for liberation against Napoleon's French Empire.
  His last epic romantic work Die Bezauberte Rose (1818) is a poem of classic beauty of style. It is in three cantos, comprising 107 stanzas of ottava rima. The 'enchanted rose' is a princess named Klothilde who has been placed under a spell. After various, powerful suitors have failed to secure her release, the minstrel Alpino is successful and she is restored to her proper form.
  In a poetic symmetry, Schulze died, like his belovèd Cäcilie, of consumption at the age of twenty-eight, a few days after receiving word that Die Bezauberte Rose had obtained the prize as the best poetic narration in F. A. Brockhaus' publication "Urania".
caption: Gedichte (poems).
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