
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's sinister and unsettling Gothic ballad 'Erlk nig' ('The Erl-King', or 'The Elf King', 1782) has haunted artists working in several genres for over two centuries, provoking hundreds of ekphrastic responses, including works by the composer Franz Schubert,...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's sinister and unsettling Gothic ballad 'Erlkoenig' ('The Erl-King', or 'The Elf King', 1782) has haunted artists working in several genres for over two centuries, provoking hundreds of ekphrastic responses, including works by the composer Franz...