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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • German philosopher and writer whose works, including the poem cycle Hymns to the Night (1800), combine refined spiritual longing and romantic emotional intensity.

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  • The extent to which Kantian self-affection invites an explicit consideration of political affect is even clearer in Novalis's "Faith and Love," where Liebe names the condition of possibility and impossibility of a relationship between a monarch and his or her subjects.

    Notes on 'Essay Title' 2006

  • The very name Novalis, the pseudonym of the poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801), sounds like an astronomical explosion on the edge of some remote galaxy.

    Paradise in a Dream Holmes, Richard 1997

  • Hardenberg (1772-1801), better known as Novalis, is pervaded by deep feeling.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Friedrich von Hardenberg (called Novalis): _Die Christenheit oder

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

  • Friedrich von Hardenberg, commonly called Novalis, it is desirable to mention that they were written when the shadow of the death of his betrothed had begun to thin before the approaching dawn of his own new life.

    Rampolli George MacDonald 1864

  • "Novalis" was the name assumed by a poet, Friedrich von Hardenberg, who died on the 25th March, 1801, aged twenty-nine.

    Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso 1809

  • In the early nineteenth century, German intellectuals such as Novalis, Schelling, and

    AvaxHome 2010

  • Novalis's Hymns to the Night were published in Prussia in 1800, when the poet-philosopher was 28; the moment of German romanticism is central to May's argument because he believes the cult of love was born out of "reactions to the irretrievable loss of a divine world-order and the firm moorings it afforded".

    Love in literature 2011

  • Novalis's 15-year-old fiancée Sophie von Kühn had died, and the hymns were inspired in a moment when he was "shedding bitter tears" beside her grave, "which in its narrow dark bosom hid the vanished form of my life".

    Love in literature 2011

  • In her 1995 novel The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald pays tender homage to Novalis's romanticism, but tells the story of his love for Sophie in a language very different to the poet's own.

    Love in literature 2011

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