person
Friedrich von Matthisson
Matthisson
also: Matthissoti, Friedrich Matthisson
Friedrich von Matthisson (1761–1831), German lyric poet celebrated for elegies set in moonlit ruins; widely anthologized in Central Europe and a direct source of Madách's cloister-ruin imagery.
Reading notes
- First Attempts (Juvenilia) §89 Matthisson
Friedrich von Matthisson (1761–1831), German lyric poet popular for elegies set among ruins; widely read in Hungary. The German epigraph — 'Melancholy lingers in the full-moon's shine, like a grave...' — sets the tone for the cloister-ruin meditation.