The Poetic Sky

From this perspective, he explores its innovations: from the Blue Flower to religious art, from Romantic irony to Gothic Romanticism, from the Renaissance of the Middle Ages to the utopia of popularity. Yet Romanticism was by no means a German affair. We encounter writers such as the Schlegel brothers and Eichendorff, Keats and Shelley, Victor Hugo or Alessandro Manzoni, as well as the great philosophers, painters and composers of the era. Everywhere the Romantics reacted to three major events: the French Revolution, the revolution in reading culture and the nationalisation following Napoleon's imperialism. In this context, Stefan Matuschek presents a fresh, new overview of Romanticism.