ABSTRACT
German poetry of the middle of the nineteenth century developed, however, at its best, rather along Wordsworthian lines than towards lightness and irony. The important German poet of the generation after the Parnassians was the urban Richard Dehmel, whose verse romance, Zivei Menschen attempted unsuccessfully to express naturalism in poetry, but whose occasional lyrics continue the Romantic tradition pleasantly with original, though occasionally sentimental, novelties of phrase. Nineteenth-century classicism found a pure exponent in Portugal, where the Romantic movement had produced only one outstanding figure, J. B. Almeida Garrett, the poet, dramatist, and restorer, by dubious processes, of the traditional ballads. The poetry of Portugal followed a parallel course to that of Spain, with Eugenio de Castro introducing the symbolist style in the place of Dario, and with the somewhat mystifying figure of Fernando Pessoa as the counterpart of Juan Ramón Jimenez, who was in some respects his master.
