Daubler are the leaders of that poetic movement known in Germany as cosmic lyricism. Mombert is a mystic, glowing with enthusiasm for the primitive landscape, a still nebulous universe, and for the ideals of the pagan. He mingles love the heroic figures fantasy with an ex: ite precision and beauty of form, Daubler, in his "lyrie cosmogony" entitled "Northern Lights," is slight. ly more Christian than pagan. He is willing to regard the heavens as the supreme revelation of God's glory, and man's highest function to return as earth to the stars and the sun. His achievement is to have reduced the formlessness of his thought to a clear precision of expression, and the thunder that reverberates through all his visions to a very distinct and clear melody.—"Observer"
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