Not only was that caricature valuable for its merry notion of the great German romantic poet as he might have appeared emulating the activities of those who followed him a century later, but also for ...

"Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before: Of genius in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening the sphere of human ...

Friedrich von Hardenberg, or Novalis as he later chose to call himself in print, still remains a rather obscure figure in the English-speaking world. If known at all, it is mostly as the German ...

Theodore “Ted” Ziolkowski, a renowned authority on German and European literature from Romanticism to the present, died on Dec. 5, 2020, in Kirkland Village, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was 88. His ...