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...lyric poetry also began, showing the influence of both France and Provence. It seems to have appeared first along the upper Rhine, and at once showed itself subjective, metaphysical, chivalric. It had, however, from the start a purely German sentimental strain. The weariness and disenchantment of Walther's old age are illustrative of a change in the moral condition of Germany and the whole world. Chivalry had ceased to be the perfect idea; it had shown itself capable of strange absurdities, and clearly could not endure. We now see what was to come, but men in the 13th century...
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