" Some merchants tell its title character "in olden times, all nature must have been more animate and spiritual than now" before they recite a story in which a poet uses his song to escape from his sailor-captors and is taken to the shore by a sea monster.
This novel's second part opens with a poem proclaiming "The world a grave becometh," titled "Astralis." Some merchants tell its title character "in olden times, all nature must have been more animate and spiritual than now" before they recite a story in which a poet uses his song to escape from his sailor-captors and is taken to the shore by a sea monster. This novel's fourth chapter takes place in a castle in which a bunch of knights sing a "crusade-song" before a woman named Zulima recounts a "rude and disagreeable" fable about the Crusades. "The Expectation" and "The Fulfillment" are this novel's two parts, which according to a letter its author wrote to Ludwig Tieck, would have ended with the title character being "declared poet," This novel centers on a minnesinger's journey to Augsburg after being haunted by a dream concerning a "blue flower." For 10 points, name this only novel by the poet Novalis.
This novel's second part opens with a poem proclaiming "The world a grave becometh," titled "Astralis.
Heinrich von Ofterdingen [or Henry of Ofterdingen]