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Religious Experience in Werfel's Barbara

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Israel S. Stamm*
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

In an article reviewing Werfel's collected poems from the Catholic point of view, Cornelius Schroeder, a Franciscan, maintains that despite constant references to God in his poetry Werfel does not experience any real religious faith. It is Schroeder's contention that Werfel does not succeed in finding a solution to the conflict between nature and spirituality which is so prominent in his poetry:

Als geistiger Mensch kommt er nicht hinweg iiber die Zwiespältigkeit von Natur und Geist, kommt er nicht los von der Qual, in welche die Geburt für die Erde den Geist gestiirzt hat.

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Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , March 1939 , pp. 332 - 347
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1939

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