Novalis

American  

[noh-vah-lis] / noʊˈvɑ lɪs /

noun

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

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Novalis British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

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

Fragments also needed “little research and could be composed over a glass of wine or a meal,” Wulf writes, making them perfect for young Friedrich Schlegel and his friend Novalis.

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

Novalis belonged to the first class, Hoffman to the latter.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich