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Heinrich von Ofterdingen

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  • Novalis, detail of an engraving by Edouard Eichens, 1845
    In Novalis

    His mythical romance Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802), set in an idealized vision of the European Middle Ages, describes the mystical and romantic searchings of a young poet. The central image of his visions, a blue flower, became a widely recognized symbol of Romantic longing among Novalis’s fellow Romantics.…

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