Professor Behler provides a view of the literary work and the artistic process developed in the German Romantic period.

Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.

Over 130 poems by 23 poets, including Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Tieck, Heine, Nietzsche, many others. New literal English translations on facing pages. Intro

Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, la

Often portrayed as a movement of poets lost in swells of passion, early German Romanticism has been generally overlooked by scholars in favor of the great syste