Novalis

[noh-vah-lis]

noun

1. pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801, German poet.

Novalis

/ noˈvaːlɪs /

noun

1. real name Friedrich von Hardenberg. 1772–1801, German romantic poet. His works include the mystical Hymnen an die Nacht (1797; published 1800) and Geistliche Lieder (1799)

Example Sentences

Describing aspects of nature’s beauty in his poem “The Meadow,” the German philosopher-poet Novalis — a founding figure of German Romanticism — ended each stanza with the same refrain: “Yet what this was, or what befell,/ I do not know, I cannot tell.”

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Novalis believed that art and romanticism were basically synonymous.

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Abrams quotes the 18th-century German Romantic Novalis: "The higher philosophy is concerned with the marriage of Nature and Mind."

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She argues that the Romantics — including Goethe, Schiller and Hegel, as well as some lesser-known figures, such as the philosophers Fichte and Schelling, the critics Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, and the poet Novalis — handed down to us the modern notion of the self as essentially free.

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As Novalis had it, in “poeticizing,” the self demonstrates that it is free.

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