Novalis
Americannoun
noun
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Abrams quotes the 18th-century German Romantic Novalis: "The higher philosophy is concerned with the marriage of Nature and Mind."
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022
The poet Novalis ascribed so much power to the Ich that after the death of his young fiancée he thought he could will himself to die.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
I thought of Novalis and Freud as I avidly read Mieko Kawakami’s “All the Lovers in the Night,” her engrossing, fine-boned new novel, deftly translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022
That pronouncement, by the German writer Novalis, appears as an epigraph to “The Blue Flower,” Penelope Fitzgerald’s great historical novel about him.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
The article on Novalis, in the "Foreign Review" of 1829, No. 7, presents with a master hand the peculiarities of the new metaphysics that were regenerating the German mind.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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