In opposition to the widely-held view that the formal idiom of Eichendorff's poetic oeuvre can be justly described as "time-less," the present study undertakes a chronological reading of Eichendorff's poetry. The advantage of this approach is that it foregrounds the dynamic nature of Eichendorff's writing and reveals the constitution of his ideas and imagery as an ongoing process.
In opposition to the widely-held view that the formal idiom of Eichendorff's poetic oeuvre can be justly described as "time-less," the present study u...
