About poetry and poets Müllner, Adolph, writer, publicist and jurist, besides Zacharias Werner main representative of the genre of "Schicksalsdramas", directed a famous lover theatre in Weißenfels (1774-1829). Eigh. Letter from M. U. "Müllner". 3 p. Double leaf. 4to. White Rock 10.XI.1826. Very rich letter to the (unnamed) young writer Ernst Ortlepp (1800-1864), who had asked him for advice and judgment on the beating of a poet's career and sent manuscripts to the rehearsal. Müllner provides detailed, comprehensive information and advice on the nature, conditions and prospects of poetry and poets in literary practice. "... In the collection that follows here, I found nothing that I could rathe to publicly exhibit as a talent sample. Not as if I had missed the traces of the poet's installations in it; I believe that I have recognized them in several details. Also not as if I had misunderstood the education obtained in the technical of poetry; They are superior to many who have been applauded with their poetry. But it seems to me that the moment, which is usually dependent on chance, has not yet come, which leads to your fluctuating inclination to the right substance, where the substance of your whole soul is mastered, and thereby would have sparked the true, poetic enthusiasm, which - once felt - suddenly develops the talent, and thus the gifted to the living feeling of the same Helps. The desire to seal is usually felt earlier than that moment of development. When he comes, one does not feel both a lust and a compulsion to seal, which originates from a particular object. Both states behave roughly like the drive of love and love ...". Müllner then quotes Friedrich Schiller and advises him to wait: "... Let the seal spring rest. Deal with the mind with scientific things and beside it the mind about the enjoyment of art in foreign works. Then either the muse will visit you, or you will learn to lack their favor. Nothing, as poets want to be, want nothing but dense, or even artistic creation, is an endeavour, equally dangerous for both inner and outer bliss, for the attitude of the soul as well as for the subsistence in external life. To live from the poetry, this includes an eminent talent, as well as great fertility, and also happiness in the spread of reputation. And to draw the inner satisfaction from this source alone for the whole life-span, that's impossible for me ..." - From the Wilhelm Künzel Collection.