Editing Kaspar Hauser (section)

=== Literature ===
A passing reference to Hauser is made in [[Herman Melville]]'s novella ''[[Billy Budd]]''. He is presented as an example of a person with a primitive, yet virtuous, personality.<ref>{{cite wikisource|author-last=Melville|author-first=Herman|title=Billy Budd|chapter=Chapter 2|quote= To any stray inheritor of these primitive qualities found, like Caspar Hauser, wandering dazed in any Christian capital of our time, the good-natured poet's famous invocation, near two thousand years ago, of the good rustic out of his latitude in the Rome of the Cesars, still appropriately holds:-'Honest and poor, faithful in word and thought,/What has thee, Fabian, to the city brought?'}}</ref>

In 1913, [[Georg Trakl]] wrote the poem ''"Kaspar Hauser Lied"'' ("Kaspar Hauser Song").<ref>{{cite web|title=Kaspar Hauser Lied|url=https://sites.google.com/site/germanliterature/20th-century/trakl/kaspar-hauser-lied|website=German Literature|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref> It alludes to the works by Verlaine and Wassermann, and has been called the "most striking" expression of a literary trope in which Kaspar Hauser "stood for the natural, poetic genius lost in a strange world, lacking a home, a sense of origin and attachment, and fearing a violent but uncertain future."<ref name="Horton2007">{{cite magazine|last1=Horton|first1=Scott|title=A Note on Trakl's 'Song of Kaspar Hauser'|magazine=Harper's|date=28 July 2007|access-date=18 April 2018 |url=https://harpers.org/blog/2007/07/a-note-on-trakls-song-of-kaspar-hauser/}}</ref> The philosopher [[Martin Heidegger]] cited this poem in his essay on poetry and language, ''Unterwegs zur Sprache''.<ref name="Heidegger1975">{{cite book|last=Heidegger|first=Martin|title=Unterwegs zur Sprache|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCsTAQAAMAAJ&q=kaspar+hauser+lied|year=1975|series=Gesamtausgabe |volume = 12 |publisher=Vittorio Klosterman|isbn=9783465027645}}</ref>

[[Kaspar (play) | Kaspar]], a play written by Austrian playwright [[Peter Handke]] and published in 1967 depicts "the foundling Kaspar Hauser as a near-speechless innocent destroyed by society’s attempts to impose on him its language and its own rational values."<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Biography of Peter Handke (Austrian Writer)</ref>

In 1994, the English poet [[David Constantine]] explored the story and its personae in ''Caspar Hauser: A Poem in Nine Cantos''.<ref>Reprinted in D. Constantine, ''Collected Poems'' (Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2004), pp. 143–216.</ref>

Canadian artist [[Diane Obomsawin]] tells the story of Kaspar Hauser in her 2007 [[graphic novel]] ''Kaspar''; in 2012 it was adapted into the animated short film ''[[Kaspar (film)|Kaspar]]''.<ref>Alex Tigchelaar, [https://xtramagazine.com/culture/jaime-diane-obomsawin-58774 "J’aime Diane Obomsawin"]. ''[[Xtra Magazine]]'', March 5, 2014.</ref>