Likely based on an unfinished romance of Chrétien de Troyes, introduced the theme of the Holy Grail into German literature.
Though a self-styled illiterate, Wolfram shows an extensive acquaintance with French and German literature, and it is probable that he knew how to read, if not how to write. Wolfram’s surviving literary works, all bearing the stamp of his unusually original personality, consist of eight lyric poems, chiefly Tagelieder the epic Parzival the unfinished epic Willehalm, telling the history of the Crusader Guillaume d’Orange and short fragments of a further epic, the so-called Titurel, which elaborates the tragic love story of Sigune from Parzival. Parzival, probably written between 12, is a poem of 25,000 lines in 16 books. 1220), German poet whose epic Parzival, distinguished alike by its moral elevation and its imaginative power, is one of the most profound literary works of the Middle Ages.Īn impoverished Bavarian knight, Wolfram apparently served a succession of Franconian lords.
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