Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 47781-h.htm or 47781-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47781/47781-h/47781-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47781/47781-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/maincurrentsinn02bran MAIN CURRENTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE by GEORGE BRANDES In Six Volumes Illustrated II THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL IN GERMANY London: William Heinemann New York: The Macmillan Company MCMVI [Illustration: A. W. SCHLEGEL] CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE PIONEERS OF ROMANTICISM II. HÖLDERLIN III. A. W. SCHLEGEL IV. TIECK AND JEAN PAUL V. SOCIAL ENDEAVOURS OF THE ROMANTICISTS LUCINDE VI. ROMANTIC PURPOSELESSNESS VII. "LUCINDE" IN REAL LIFE VIII. SCHLEIERMACHER'S LETTERS IX. WACKENRODER: ROMANTICISM AND MUSIC X. ATTITUDE OF ROMANTICISM TO ART AND NATURE XI. ROMANTIC DUPLICATION AND PSYCHOLOGY XII. ROMANTIC SOUL. NOVALIS XIII. LONGING--"THE BLUE FLOWER" XIV. ARNIM AND BRENTANO XV. MYSTICISM IN THE ROMANTIC DRAMA XVI. ROMANTIC LITERATURE AND POLITICS XVII. ROMANTIC POLITICIANS "Allen Gewalten Zum Trutz sich erhalten, Nimmer sich beugen ..." --GOETHE. "Philosophiren ist dephlegmatisiren, ist vivissciren." --NOVALIS. LIST OF PORTRAITS A. W. SCHLEGEL LUDWIG TIECK FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL SCHLEIERMACHER W. HOFFMANN NOVALIS THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL IN GERMANY INTRODUCTION