F.G. Klopstock's poem Der Messias, upon its first publication in 1780 welcomed as a "national poem", never enjoyed a wide fame among the audience, and today is almost totally neglected. How did this happen? My suspicion is that from the very start, there has been a misunderstanding of the reception of the Messias: this monstrous epic might be defined as all sorts of things, but not as the German national epic. In this essay it will be shown that Der Messias is twice contradictory: first of all as for its formal features, and then also for the subject it deals with.
Klopstock's Messias - a belated sparkle of Medieval epics?
KINDL, Ulrike
2005-01-01
Abstract
F.G. Klopstock's poem Der Messias, upon its first publication in 1780 welcomed as a "national poem", never enjoyed a wide fame among the audience, and today is almost totally neglected. How did this happen? My suspicion is that from the very start, there has been a misunderstanding of the reception of the Messias: this monstrous epic might be defined as all sorts of things, but not as the German national epic. In this essay it will be shown that Der Messias is twice contradictory: first of all as for its formal features, and then also for the subject it deals with.
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