Christoph Martin Wieland ~5 hr read

A knight bound to the fairy king Oberon undertakes a perilous quest of love and honor, aided and tested by supernatural powers, in a romantic epic of chivalry and enchantment.

Christoph Martin Wieland's 1780 verse epic 'Oberon' is a celebrated German Romantic poem of knights, fairies, and love. Lyrical, sweeping, influential. Read it for a foundational work of German fantasy, a gorgeous poem of magic and adventure that inspired Weber's opera and Goethe's admiration.

In its time

Published in 1780, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).