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Phantastes Chapter 9: Dejection: An Ode, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Phantastes Chapter 9: Dejection: An Ode, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
German Romantic and Other Influences
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" (lines 47-49 and 53-58). Coleridge published the poem in 1802.
Phantastes Chapter 2: Heinrich Von Ofterdingen, Georg Philipp Friedrich
Phantastes Chapter 2: Heinrich Von Ofterdingen, Georg Philipp Friedrich
German Romantic and Other Influences
Novalis is Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801). A German writer who helped define German Romanticism, he was a key influence on MacDonald. Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802) is a fantastical romance that concerns a young poet in search of love, who has dream visions. A central symbol in the work is a blue flower, which has become an icon for German Romanticism.