Gerstenberg, Heinrich Wilhelm von, lyricist, critic and dramatist of sensitivity and the storm and urge, exciter and founder of the barden poetry, friends with J. H. Voß and the circle of poets around Klopstock (1737-1823). Eigh. Poem manuscript m. U. "Heinrich von Gerstenberg". 2/3 p. 4to. O.O. (probably after 1800). "Goodbye." 2 verses of 4 lines each. "Light and joyful as the wave, eternally young and eternally new, / Stay away in every place / noble to You! true happiness ... Let another bouquet bind you, / Every flower admonishes and speaks; / Now one calls, they will find, / From: 'forget, don't forget mine!' - Gerstenberg, whose tragedy "Ugolino" caused a sensation in 1768, received the honorary doctorate of the University of Kiel in 1815. - Including a portrait of Gerstenburg from Meyer's conversation dictionary. - Very rare.