Novalis
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    Novalis

    Novalis(1772–1801)

    German Romantic poet and thinker whose fragments and poems fuse philosophy, mysticism, and lyrical inwardness. He pursued a 'poetic' transformation of knowledge, treating imagination as a mode of spiritual and intellectual discovery.

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    Schriften

    The Dial's edition: Berlin, 1836

    A collected edition of the writings of Novalis: a mix of lyric poetry, philosophical fragments, and unfinished prose that helped define early German Romanticism.