He argued for a return to medieval Catholic ritual in a speech he never gave, Christianity or Europe, and he died before he could finish the bildungsroman in which he used the symbol of a blue flower to represent Romantic aspiration for the other-worldly.
In an ecstatic review, Thomas Carlyle wrote that Coleridge's Biographia Literaria "[is] but a slight business" compared with the learning on display in this man's writings. He wrote, "Afar lies the world, sunk in a deep grave; waste and lonely is its place" to address the melancholy created in him by the death of his fiancée Sophie von Kuhn. He argued for a return to medieval Catholic ritual in a speech he never gave, Christianity or Europe, and he died before he could finish the bildungsroman in which he used the symbol of a blue flower to represent Romantic aspiration for the other-worldly. FTP, identify this German Romantic who didn't complete Heinrich von Ofterdingen but did live to see publication of his Hymns to the Night.
In an ecstatic review, Thomas Carlyle wrote that Coleridge's Biographia Literaria "[is] but a slight business" compared with the learning on display in this man's writings.
{Novalis} [or Friedrich von {Hardenburg}]