What it is not, however, is a history of German literature. Indeed, anyone consulting it as
such would get a highly selective and weirdly slanted view of the subject. The problems start …

So begins a poem in Heine's Die Heimkehr, one of the constituent collections within his
Buch der Lieder (1827). When one reads the whole poem from which this opening line is …

With the exception, perhaps, of a few works of Hebbel and Kleist, the Romantic movement in
Germany produced little for the dramatic stage. From the time of Goethe and Schiller, prior to …

Abstract In Desire's Sway, James M. McGlathery investigates the role of suppressed sexual
desire in the works of the important German author Heinrich von Kleist. In contrast to the past …

" Meine Ruh'ist hin"--" my peace is gone": So says Gretchen, in wonder and anguish, all
because she has fallen in love with one of European literature's least likeable heroes …

The historians of literature consider Kleist's literary identity as problematic. The present
article intends to question Kleist's relation with the German Romantic School, of which he is …

What it is not, however, is a history of German literature. Indeed, anyone consulting it as
such would get a highly selective and weirdly slanted view of the subject. The problems start …

What it is not, however, is a history of German literature. Indeed, anyone consulting it as
such would get a highly selective and weirdly slanted view of the subject. The problems start …

What it is not, however, is a history of German literature. Indeed, anyone consulting it as
such would get a highly selective and weirdly slanted view of the subject. The problems start …

Heinrich Heine is considered to be one of the most influential poets of the German Romantic
period. Likewise, Robert Schumann, through his musical innovations and critiques, is …