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.