Excerpt from SommermärchenRudolf Baumbach is, like every true poet, at once a realist and idealist. He sees and portrays things as they really are and then infuses into them the breath of life, the fire of Prometheus, the essence of the soul, the element of the ideal. Thus, in his writings we see Nature not only as she in reality is, but also as she ideally impresses herself upon the poet's individuality we have not merely a photograph of the landscape, but a personal painting of it. In other words we have not artifice but art: not a mere block of unsightly soulless marble, but the beautiful soulful statue, the ideal, that the true sculptor sees as the essence of the real.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.