August Graf von Platen’s Poem on The Grave of Alaric
The launch of one of my videos on YouTube is always accompanied by a flurry of PR activity. Well actually, I just tweet it a couple of times in the hope that somebody somewhere will notice. From time to time I even get some responses. My most recent one on the death of Alaric elicited a gem of a response from @sciamannata who drew my attention to a poem on the subject by the German romantic poet August Graf von Platen. I don’t know anything about this guy apart from his dates – early nineteenth century. But reading the poem you can get a big sense of what Alaric meant to pre-unification Germans.