Freiligrath (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath)

German poet. Born into a poor family in Detmold, he started writing poetry halfway through his studies while working in a shop. Influenced by English and French Romanticism, he published works such as "Ride of the Lion" (1835), which were full of unique colors and exoticism, and breathed fresh air into the poetry world of the time. In 1844, he became a political poet with his collection of poems "Confessions of Faith", which caused a stir, and he continued to publish many striking political poems, such as in Marx's "Neue Rheinische Zeitung". His representative works include "From the Dead to the Living" (1848) and "Farewell Address to the Neue Rheinische Zeitung" (1849), which are included in "Anthology of Modern Political and Social Poems" (1849-51). He spent most of his later years in exile in London, but as he became estranged from the political world, it seems that his fountain of poetry gradually dried up.

[Yoshiyoshi Miyano]

"Freiligrat Poems" translated by Shozo Inoue (1948, Nippon Hyoronsha)" ▽ "German Liberation Poems" translated by Shozo Inoue (Kawade Bunko)

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ドイツの詩人。デトモルトの貧しい家庭に生まれ、学業なかばで商店などに勤めるかたわら詩作の道に入る。英・仏ロマン派の影響を受け、『ライオン騎行』（1835）など独特の色彩感、異国情緒あふれる作品を発表、時の詩壇に新風を吹き込んだ。1844年、詩集『信念の告白』で政治詩人に転身して話題をよび、その後もマルクスの『新ライン新聞』などに数々の鮮烈な政治詩を発表した。代表作には『死者より生者へ』（1848）、『新ライン新聞訣別(けつべつ)の辞』（1849）などを含む『現代政治社会詩集』（1849～51）がある。晩年はその大半を亡命の地ロンドンで過ごすが、政治の世界から疎遠になるとともに、その詩の泉もしだいに涸(か)れていった感がある。

［宮野悦義］

『井上正蔵訳『フライリヒラート詩集』（1948・日本評論社）』▽『井上正蔵訳『ドイツ解放詩集』（河出文庫）』

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