An Outline Of German Romanticism Classic Reprint

Excerpt from An Outline of German Romanticism This outline was prepared for the benefit of advanced students and those who teach advanced students. Suggested by unforgetable experience, it is the outgrowth of an impelling desire to enrich the efforts of those who give and to clarify the labors of those who receive. An attempt has been made to compile a textbook, a sort of literary almanac, that would cost but little in money and would save much time. Neither history nor prophecy can point to a century so abounding in spiritual phenomena as the one between 1766 and 1866, and the middle half of it is the richest. And the period from 1790 to 1815, the age of systematic Romanticism, admits of so many different methods of approach, that unless the master is able to eliminate the conventional, the scattered facts about which there is no dispute, the disciple will not be able to assimilate the essential, the meaning of the literature itself, about which there is so much discussion and on which, incidentally, the course is really supposed to be given. Data are as important in literature as in science; fancy always starts from facts. But when a teacher of literature is giving facts, he is giving what can be derived from many other sources, he is being unoriginal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION VIII THE SIDE LIGHTS Strictly speaking, literary "schools" have not been numerous in Germany. There have not been many instances where a number of poets--more than two--holding a common doctrine, accepting the same teachings, exhibiting in practice the same general methods and intellectual bent, have banded together and made propaganda for a common cause. The very fact that a man is a poet is proof positive that he is different from other men, including other poets, and there never were even two poets exactly or even nearly alike. To have a successful school, there must be good teamwork; and to have this, a long series of similarities on the part of the participants is necessary. We can speak of the First Silesian School (1625-75), the Second Silesian School (1650-1700), the (c)otthtger ain (1767-1800), Storm and Stress (176787), the Berlin-Jena Romantic School (1798-1801), the Heidelberg Romantic School (1806-08) and Young Germany (1830-48) with more or less propriety, and with that the list of " schools" is about complete. Goethe and Schiller established a Classical School (1794-1805) at Weimar only in the sense that they wrote poetry of a high order, which found many imitators and many more readers and admirers. But it is with a school as with a triangle, or with jealousy: it requires three parts to complete it. And then a school is unlike a triangle, or jealousy, in that more than three parts will tend to make it more nearly perfect, more enduring and effective. In the case of the twenty-eight poets, grouped under this rubric, we have to do with a number of men each one of whom went his own way and accomplished something that makes him unforgetable. They lived in the age of Romanticism and were not merely influenced.

Excerpt from Friedrich Schlegel and Goethe, 1790-1802: A Study in Early German Romanticism Such statements roundly deny any real sympathy with the romantic doctrines and practises of the Schlegels and imply a. Degree of artistic and literary isolation incompatible with mutual in uence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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Excerpt from Romanticism and the Romantic School in Germany In the preface an opportunity is offered to the author to express his gratitude to those friendly agents who assisted him in the making of his book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Karl Lebrecht Immermann: A Study in German Romanticism TO Professors W. H. Carpenter, Hervey, Krapp, Lawrence, Remy and Tombo Of Columbia, and to Professor F. W. Trus cott of West Virginia University, I owe that peculiarly unpay able debt that disciple always owes to master. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.