Die Albigenser

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In Nikolaus Lenau
…religious epics Savonarola (1837) and Die Albigenser (1842; “The Albigensians”), deal with his relentless and unsuccessful search for order and constancy in love, nature, and faith. Following Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s death in 1832, the appearance in 1833 of the second part of his Faust inspired many renditions of the…
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