Excerpt from The Last Knight: A Romance-Garland After publishing several minor pieces in the almanacs at that time a usual channel for the production of rising authors, he ap peared for the first time, in 1830, in a volume of collected poems entitled Blatter der Liebe. These poems were said by the critics to be written in the prevailing Austrian vein, with a strong dash of heine. The same year he published at Stuttgart Der Letzte Ritter, the last knight, - a series of ballads founded on incidents in the life of the Emperor maximilian I., - and forming a national poem, which gave him immediate and wide reputation. His fame was increased by the Spazierg'ange eines Wiener Poeten, political lyrics, that well deserved the celebrity they attained. These works, with his other productions Schutt, Gedichte, Nibelungen im Frack, and Pfafl' Vom Kahlenberg, exhibiting powers of humor and irony no less than a high order of imagination, and great vigor and beauty of expression, entitled him to rank, and have maintained his position among the best and most distinguished of the living poets of Germany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.