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Hymns to the Night (Hymnen an die Nacht) is a set of six prose poems written by the German Romantic poet Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg) and published in 1800. [1] The poems were written in response to the death of Novalis' fiance, Sophie von Kuehn, in 1797. [2]
The krautrock band Novalis took their name from Novalis and used his poems for lyrics on their albums. Novalis records, which are produced by AVC Audio Visual Communications AG, Switzerland, was named in tribute to Novalis's writings. The avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage made the short film First Hymn to the Night – Novalis in 1994.
The Novalis novel also contained the symbol of the Blue Flower, which became a key symbol in Romanticism. In the early 20th century, nationalistic German writers portrayed Heinrich as a defender of veritable German poetry and even as author of the Nibelungenlied poem.
Centaurea cyanus, common in the native lands of Novalis. A blue flower (German: Blaue Blume) was a central symbol of inspiration for the Romanticism movement, and remains an enduring motif in Western art today. [1] It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable. It symbolizes hope and the beauty of ...
Christiane Wilhelmine Sophie von Kühn (17 March 1782 – 19 March 1797) was the love interest and eventual fiancée of the German Romantic poet and philosopher Friedrich von Hardenberg, known simply as Novalis. Her image famously appears in Novalis’ Hymns to the Night, a foundational text of the literary movement known as German Romanticism.
Transcendental poetry is a term related to the theory of poetry and literature and, more precisely, to the fields of aesthetics and romantic philosophy. [1] The expression "transcendental poetry" was created by the German critic and philosopher Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) and also used by the poet and philosopher Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801), also known as Novalis.
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Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Neoclassical ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.