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ON THE ORIGIN OF

BÜRGER'S

LEONORA,

FROM THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE,

1799.

The (two) following Letters were addressed to the Editor of a literary journal in London, with whose plan it is inconfiftent to infert articles of correfpondence: from him they were banded to us for publication. Our defire to oblige the foreign author has prompted us to admit them: yet we confider it as a mere question of curiofity, whether Bürger's Ballad is in any degree a refaccimento: bis merit is not diminished by the pre-existence of the story. In the fecond volume of Poems by Robert Southey, p. 145, may be found an extract from Matthew of Weflminster, relating a tale also occurring in Olaus Magnus and in the Nuremberg Chronicle, the catastrophe of which bears an obvious resemblance to the ftory of Lenore. This incident perhaps has been used by some Minnefinger, and has contributed its sparkles to kindle the imagination of Bürger. MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

DEAR SIR,

ON a short excursion to the Lower Rhine, I happened to stop for dinner at the post-house of Glandorf, a small place in the bishoprick of Ofnabruck.-Besides my fellow-traveller, a gentleman of Valenciennes, there was no other company `but a young chanoineffe of the abbey of Essen, who was going on a visit to her noble parents in the neighbourhood of Ofnabruck.-Dinner was served, and the post-master, a Mr. Cordes, joined

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joined us, to do the honours of the table rather than to partake of the fare. My Frenchman had foon engaged in a converfation with the lady; and, tandis qu'il pouffoit fa fortune, I boarded the post-mafter, in whom I was agreeably surprised to meet with a man of learning, astonishingly well versed both in English and German literature. He feemed pleased to hear that the latter had become more than ever familiar to the English reader. I mentioned fundry good translations to him, and when I happened to speak of the late elegant edition of Bürger's Leonora, he could not refrain from saying, "I wish they had honoured the work with a lefs fine edition, and not accused the author of plagiarism." These words occafioned a more minute enquiry. He infifted upon the fable being of Saxon origin, and offered to produce an old man, an inhabitant of the place, who would repeat nearly the whole poem in Low Dutch; adding that this man frequently heard it recited in his youth, by people still older than himself, from whom he had learned it. My time would not permit me to ftop for the man; but having told Mr. Cordes that I meant to come back by the fame road, he had the goodness to promise me his opinion in writing concerning the origin of the fable; which, in fact, I found in readiness when I arrived a second time at Glandorf, and herewith I fend you a tranflation of it. You will as a patron of German literature find means of giving it publicity, and thereby remove the error into which the admirers of that truly beautiful Ballad have been led concerning its origin.

Hamburg, April 9, 1799.

Your's, &c.

C. L.

AGREEABLY

AGREEABLY to your kind requeft I communicate to you with pleasure, in writing all I know, and what. I already have told you by word of mouth, concerning Bürger's Leonora, confidered as a popular tale in tower Saxony. I do fo with the greateft fatisfaction, as it confirms Bürger's own affertion that an old Low-Dutch ballad furnished him with the idea of that piece, which affertion you will fee stated in the German Mercury-(der Deutsche Mercur, fe&t. 2. and in fect. 4. of Mr. Schlegel) in contradiction to fome English antiquarians, who fay, that Bürger took his Leonora from a collection of old Ballads, published in London, in three volumes, in 1723, and in which the matter of that Poem is contained in a ftory, entitled: The Suffolk Miracle, or a Relation of a young Man, who a Month after his death appeared to his Saveetheart.

I have often heard the tale repeated by fundry perfons of this place; and among others by a man of the age of 75 years. A ftill greater proof of its being a popular tale of Low Saxon origin, is its being fo univerfally known in those parts; 'and I heard it feveral times recited almost in the fame manner by my step-mother, who is 71 years old, lives in a place called Rheine, at five German miles diftance from hence, in the bishopric of Munster, and affured me, that in her youth she heard it often related by feveral people. The story runs as follows:

The lover enlists in the army, is killed, appears by night, gently rapping at the door of his sweetheart. She asks, Who's there?" Dien leef is dar," is his answer. She opens the door, gets behind him on his horse; they gallop away in the swifteft courfe. Then the fwain fays these identical words:

"De mond, de fchint fo belle,

De doden riet fo Schnelle.

Fiens Leevken gruvlt di ok ?'

"Wat fcholl mi gruveln, du bift ja by mi.”

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