YMNOI STH NYXTA - Novalis

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Résumé :
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 - 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis, was a German poet, novelist and philosopher. He is regarded as an influential figure of the Romanticism. Hymns to the Night are considered his major lyrical achievements...

Biographie:
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 - 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis, was a German poet, novelist and philosopher. He is regarded as an influential figure of the Romanticism. Hymns to the Night are considered his major lyrical achievements...

Sommaire:
NOVALIS (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801) was perhaps the greatest of the poets of German Romanticism. The author of Hymns to the Night, he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. As the great 20th-century theologian Karl Barth observed, We shall only be able to speak of a true Neo-romanticism for all time when Romanticism is once again seriously taken up in the sense that Novalis understood it, and in his spirit....