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- 107.800 palabras
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- 1873by Georg Brandes
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You will enjoy this if you love literary portraits, lively gossip about poets, and big arguments about art and politics. It suits readers curious about Goethe's circle, German philosophy and Romantic moods.
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Picture a shop window in Berlin around 1870. On the clocks, where a knight in armor once knelt to kiss a lady's fingertips, Uhlans and cuirassiers now stand in uniform. Stacked muskets serve as candlesticks.
Georg Brandes opens with this scene in the second volume of Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature. The Danish critic follows the first great literary movement of the century, the reaction, from its birth to its climax. He studies Novalis, Tieck, the Schlegels, Hoffmann, Kleist and more, and he looks for the soul behind each life. You get a sharp, opinionated guide, and his argument is clear: a movement that began with a cry for freedom ended at the altar and the throne.
En este resumen
- 1Literature grows from the life of its timeFree
- 2A divided land taught its poets to dream
- 3Fichte's Ego gave dreamers a license
- 4Translation proves what patient craft can do
- 5Lovell and Roquairol show life played as a role
- 6Lucinde mistakes idleness for freedom
- 7Music, moonlight and a taste for vagueness
- 8Mirrors, doubles and the dissolving self
- 9Novalis and the road of longing
- 10From rebellion to the altar and the throne
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Literature grows from the life of its time
Brandes begins with a method. A literary movement is not a set of rules but a set of feelings that rise in the human heart. To understand a book, you trace it back to the mood and the soul that produced it.
He rejects drawing-room literary history. The heart is no still pool but an ocean with strange creatures beneath. A student should look at nettles as calmly as at roses, like a botanist or a physician. German Romanticism makes this task hard, because its ideal is a melody and not a shape. Its goals carry names such as a blue flower or the magic of the lonely woods, and each describes a mood and not a thing.
He also measures Germany against Denmark. Danish authors gave their material a clearer form but lacked the philosophy of life that every German carried. Brandes prizes boldness, even when it ends in extravagance.
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Questions about Las principales corrientes de la literatura del siglo XIX: 2. La Escuela romántica en Alemania
What is The Romantic School in Germany about?
It is Georg Brandes's study of German Romanticism, following writers such as Novalis, Tieck, the Schlegels, Hoffmann and Kleist. He links each author's life, moods and ideas to their work and shows how the movement drifted from freedom toward reaction.
What does the blue flower mean?
The blue flower comes from Novalis's novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Brandes reads it as a symbol of perfect, purely personal happiness, the endless longing at the heart of Romantic poetry, which is sensed from afar and never grasped.
Who are the main writers Brandes discusses?
He covers Goethe and Schiller as forerunners, then Hölderlin, A. W. and Friedrich Schlegel, Tieck, Jean Paul, Novalis, Hoffmann, Arnim, Brentano, Kleist, Werner, Fouqué, Görres and Gentz, with comparisons to Shelley, George Sand and Kierkegaard.
What is Lucinde and why does Brandes discuss it?
Lucinde is Friedrich Schlegel's 1799 novel praising love, idleness and the union of body and spirit. Brandes treats it as the school's manifesto, drawn from real lives, and as its only attempt to address a social question.
What is the main message of the book?
Brandes argues that Romanticism began as a bold cry for freedom but, built on longing and inward feeling, drifted toward obedience, mysticism and political reaction. He holds that literature should stay joined to real life and action.
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Brandes, Georg. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature – 2. The Romantic School in Germany. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/main-currents-in-nineteenth-century-literature-2-the-romantic-school-in-germany.
Brandes, G. (2026). Main currents in nineteenth century literature – 2. The Romantic school in Germany. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/main-currents-in-nineteenth-century-literature-2-the-romantic-school-in-germany (Original work published 1873)
Brandes, Georg. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature – 2. The Romantic School in Germany. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/main-currents-in-nineteenth-century-literature-2-the-romantic-school-in-germany.
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