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en-wikipedia-org-280		Weltschmerz - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1042	211	59	Weltschmerz (from the German, literally world-pain, also world weariness, pronounced [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts]) is a term coined by the German author Jean Paul in his 1827 novel Selina.[1] In its original meaning in the Deutsches Wörterbuch by Brothers Grimm, it denotes a deep sadness about the inadequacy or imperfection of the world (tiefe Traurigkeit über die Unzulänglichkeit der Welt). This kind of world view was widespread among several romantic and decadent authors such as Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, Giacomo Leopardi, Paul Verlaine, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alfred de Musset, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolaus Lenau,[3] Hermann Hesse,[4] and Heinrich Heine.[3] Beiser defines Weltschmerz more broadly as "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering",[5] and notes that by the 1860s the word was used ironically in Germany to refer to oversensitivity to those same concerns. Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-280.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-280.txt