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100 1 _aBerghofer, Amand,
_d1745-1825
245 1 0 _aEmpfindungen aus meinem Leben
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-07
508 _aRichard Illner, Alpo Tiilikka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Austrian National Library)
520 _aEmpfindungen aus meinem Leben by Amand Berghofer is a collection of lyrical and philosophical reflections—interweaving poems and prose meditations—written in the late 18th century. In the sentimental, nature-centered vein, it explores the inner life of a reflective narrator who turns from urban vanity to the healing presence of nature, the claims of love and virtue, and the consolations of faith, with a persistent attention to melancholy, mortality, and the hope of immortality. The book opens with a preface defending true poetry as the dignity of humankind, then follows a first-person retreat from the city to a secluded, sacred landscape where the speaker seeks reconciliation with fate. Alternating pieces trace tender melancholy, self-exhortation, and rapturous communion with nature while denouncing courtly pride and celebrating rural simplicity, compassion, and moderate pleasure (wine, song, humane feeling). The narrator yearns for an ideal beloved, includes a translated lay of willing love-suffering, and wrestles to align passion with virtue. Midway the mood deepens into meditations on the sources of dejection, memories of innocent youth, and a long graveyard scene confronting death and the limits of worldly glory. Nocturnal and “midnight” hymns elevate thought toward divine grandeur and the soul’s eternity; the soul addresses its sleeping body, preparing for both a new day and the beyond. The work closes by locating true rest not in this life but beyond the grave, sealed with a serene self-epitaph. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cWien: Joseph Kurzböcken, 1774
653 _aAustrian poetry
856 4 _uhttps://viewer.onb.ac.at/10417F81/
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78383
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