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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2002 38(1):1-13; doi:10.1093/fmls/38.1.1
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Of Mice and Sparrows: Nature and Power in the Late Eighteenth Century

David Hill1

1 Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom

A comparison of the German poet Gottfried August Bürger with his contemporary, the Scottish poet Robert Burns, reveals many similarities in their lives, in their poetic achievements and in the ways in which their writing has been received. Both similarities and differences are put into focus by a close examination of two poems which are based on the same motif, a chance encounter between an individual and a member of the animal kingdom. Bürger and Burns both use the realistic portrayal of everyday situations in order to reflect on human nature and the potential of human society.


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