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Richard Voss (1851–1918)
Voss, Richard. A German poet; born at Neugrape in Pomerania, Sept. 2, 1851; died in 1918. Among his dramatic compositions are: ‘Savonarola’ (1878); ‘Magda’ (1879); ‘The Patrician Dame’ (1881); ‘Luigia Sanfelice’ (1882); ‘Father Modestus’ (1883); ‘The Czar’s Moor’ (1883), after a fragment by Pushkin; ‘Woe to the Besieged’ (1889); ‘Eve’ (1889); ‘Betwixt Two Hearts’ (1893); ‘At Sedan’ (1895). In narrative verse he wrote: ‘Messalina’ (1881); ‘A Hill Asylum’ (1882); ‘Roman Village Tales’ (1884). Among his novels are: ‘Life Tragedy of an Actress’ (1883); ‘The New Romans’ (1885); ‘Children of the South’ (1888); ‘Villa Falconieri’ (1895); ‘Roman Fever’ (1902); ‘The People of Valdaré’; ‘With Vine Leaves in the Hair’ (1915); ‘The Great Marvel’ (1915).