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Hermann von Lingg (1820–1905)
Lingg, Hermann von (ling). A German poet; born at Lindau, Jan. 22, 1820; died in 1905. He published (1853) a volume of ‘Poems’ of great originality, and remarkable for wealth of imagery and deep elegiac tone. ‘The Migration of Peoples’ (3 books, 1866–68) showed grandeur and epic power. His dramas are less admirable; among them are: ‘The Doge Candiano’ (1873); ‘The Sicilian Vespers’; and ‘Catiline.’ Besides ‘Patriotic Ballads’ (1868), ‘Dark Powers,’ and several volumes of collected poems, he wrote ‘Byzantine Tales’ (1881); ‘From Forest and Lake,’ five stories (1883); ‘Clytia, a Scene from Pompeii’ (1883).