Poets Novalis and Heinrich von Overtingen

For a romantic poet, there must be many stories to make him romantic. So what's the story of Novalis? Before novas was nine, he was mentally retarded. He is the eldest son of his family and the object of his parents' concern, but compared with his other brothers and sisters, Novalis is sickly. The best relationship with him is his mother, a smart, sensitive and understanding woman. When Novalis was nine years old, Novalis suffered from dysentery. Dysentery afflicts his body, and he has been in a state of recuperation after long-term treatment with those drugs. After the dysentery recovered, it still brought the sequela of gastroptosis to Novalis. But at the same time, Novalis's childhood life has undergone tremendous changes. After dysentery was cured, Novalis's dull intelligence seemed to wake up, and he began to grow up, and his thoughts began to develop rapidly. Therefore, Novalis's father began to pay more attention to his eldest son and would wear Novalis when traveling. It is because of these experiences that Novalis has grown faster.

1790, Novalis ended his liberal arts middle school life and his basic education for several months. And study philosophy with Fichte. If it weren't for dysentery at the age of nine, perhaps Novalis's intelligence would still be so slow, and his father wouldn't pay more attention to him, so he wouldn't be able to receive education and become a romantic poet in the future.

If a poet's achievement is anything, it is his work. Novalis is a German romantic poet, so Novalis's achievement is the creation of poetry. Among Novalis's works, Heinrich von Overtingen and Ode to the Night are the most famous. Heinrich von Overttingen, a novel opposite to Goethe's William Meister, described the life of the medieval poet Overttingen with blue flowers as a symbol of romantic longing. The whole novel is divided into two parts, which make full use of beautiful language and rich imagination. In Novalis's view, this novel has no definite ending. 1800 February 23rd, Hardenbergh wrote in a letter to Ludwig Tektronix, "The whole novel should be a model of poetry. Heinrich von Overtingen matured into a poet in the first part-in the second part, he deified poetry into a poet and gave it a happy expression or wonderful color. "

Ode to the Night is another masterpiece of Novalis. This was written by Novalis after the death of his fiancee, expressing his mourning for his dead fiancee and his own pursuit of "the wonderful kingdom of eternal night". In Novalis's view, the real theme and content of poetry are mysterious, wonderful and fairy-tale things. In his poem Religious Songs, he showed his belief in Christianity. In Christianity or Europa, Novalis hopes to have an idealized medieval society: people live in harmony and are satisfied, and all political and social contradictions are covered up. In this article, Novalis complained that Christianity in Europe was divided by the Reformation and the Enlightenment. He vilified the Enlightenment and the French Revolution; He called for the establishment of a European Union under the leadership of a new and lasting church.