August Kopisch

August Kopisch
(1799-1853)
source: Karl Friedrich Gustav Könnecke, Bilderatlas
zur Geschichte der deutschen Nationallitteratur
Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage
Marburg: Elwert, 1895
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Poet and painter in love for Capri and its Blue Grotto (that he saw first time in the 1830's, and re-made famous to their contemporaries), rendered in German Dante's Divine Comedy, translated some Italian folk songs, and re-told in verses some German folk stories.

• Die Heinzelmännchen zu Köln, 1836

(German and Nordic Literature)