The front cover, the preliminaries and the fore-edge id foxed, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. "Mörike was a member of the so-called Swabian school of writers around Ludwig Uhland. His poems (Gedichte, 1838), are mostly lyrical, yet often humorous and written in simple and seemingly everyday German ...His work was greatly praised by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who recommended him to Bertrand Russell as "really a great poet and his poems are among the best things we have...the beauty of Mörike's work is very closely related to Goethe's."..... Many of his lyrics were set to music by Hugo Wolf, Ludwig Hetsch and Fritz Kauffmann. Ignaz Lachner set to music his opera Die Regenbrüder. Many of his poems became established folksongs. Wilhelm Killmayer set several of his poems in his song cycle Mörike-Lieder in 2003. " (Wikipedia)