sehnsucht

There was in her a longing, a "sehnsucht," for she knew not what.

Lady Merton, Colonist Humphry Ward 1885

In that spirit, let me provide a link to a charming article on HP Lovecraft and CS Lewis, men who both were haunted by sehnsucht, the autumnal longing for things not of this world, half-remembered.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

Pain, yes; tragedy, yes; and this greatest of Russians beats the Germans at their own game because there is no musical sehnsucht that can compare with his.

Archive 2007-01-01 Jessica 2007

Pain, yes; tragedy, yes; and this greatest of Russians beats the Germans at their own game because there is no musical sehnsucht that can compare with his.

Yikes, it's Tchaiks Jessica 2007

Keine sehnsucht fühlte mein Herz; es wendete rückwärts

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

His music is a series of psychoses -- he has the sehnsucht of a marvellously constituted nature -- and the shrill dissonance of his nerves, as seen in the physiological outbursts of the B minor Scherzo, is the agony of a tortured soul.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

It may be remarked that the lover's emotion has here unusual depth, a strain of _sehnsucht_; and the picture of the mother followed by her daughter in the country-dance suggests the domesticity of Northern races.

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866

Never did the always-baffled, always reaespiring hope of the finite to compass the infinite find such expression, except in the sehnsucht of music.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

Udo Lindenberg - Der Millionaer hat keine Kohle mehr hey play "Und endlich stirbt die sehnsucht doch" by Hans Eisler

WFMU's recent playlists 2008

I won’t be seeing in the theater again, however, as I did with Iron Man (yesterday, because it’s just that fun) and Prince Caspian (tomorrow, because I have a yearning within me for sehnsucht, that indefinable sense of wonder).

Batman Gonna Take A Beating « the balcony fool 2008