The Romantic Tradition: German Literature and Music in the Nineteenth Century

The 24 contributors to these essays on literature and music are literary historians, musicologists and philosophers. They attempt to break new critical ground both on aesthetic principles and in re-approaching well-known works in the mixed genres typical of the 19th-century German romantic movement. The editor reminds the reader that what was a longed for goal for the Romantics, had been an accepted fact to the ancient Greeks.