Sintram and His Companions Friedrich de la Motte Fouque

Four tales are, it is said, intended by the Author to be appropriate to the Four Seasons: the stern, grave "Sintram", to winter; the tearful, smiling, fresh "Undine", to Spring; the torrid deserts of the "Two Captains", to summer; and the sunset gold of "Aslauga's Knight", to autumn. **** The author of these tales, as well as of many more, was Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouque, one of the foremost of the minstrels or tale-tellers of the realm of spiritual chivalry-the realm whither Arthur's knights departed when they "took the Sancgreal's holy quest,"-whence Spenser's Red Cross knight and his fellows came forth on their adventures, and in which the Knight of la Mancha believed, and endeavoured to exist. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Sintram and His Companions (Friedrich de La Motte Fouque)