Interesting. I just finished the Romantic opinion of the Renaissance in an historiography book about the Renaissance (obviously) and only Goethe is mentionned. But they made of difference between the Durm and Strang movement and the Romantic one. Ha, Heine, we can't escape him in German class. He trolls my head from time to time.
Probably, it's that the rest of the world defines Romanticism wider than German (and German-influenced) scholars, because German Romanticism doesn't exist until a group of younger writers turned away from the ideals of Goethe and Schiller. Funny that they'd make the distinction to S&D, though, because I always thought it appeared like a kind of proto-Romanticism.
Heine belongs on any German curriculum and I find it gravely distressing that the only poem students ever read is Lorelei.
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Ha, Heine, we can't escape him in German class. He trolls my head from time to time.
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Heine belongs on any German curriculum and I find it gravely distressing that the only poem students ever read is Lorelei.
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