Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857). A poet and imaginative storyteller and novelist, he was undoubtedly one of the most representative feathers of German Romanticism. His work inspired numerous musicians, such as Schumann, Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Richard Strauss, among others, and feathers as influential as Nietzsche himself. His evocative poems, as well as his brief narratives and novels, nurtured culture throughout Europe, providing common places where lyricism and nature occupy a relevant place. His recurring and beautiful landscape descriptions marked a point and apart in the way that human beings must relate to their natural environment. A timeless classic.