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Novalis

American

[noh-vah-lis] / noʊˈvɑ lɪs /

noun

pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801, German poet.

Novalis British

/ noˈvaːlɪs /

noun

real name Friedrich von Hardenberg. 1772–1801, German romantic poet. His works include the mystical Hymnen an die Nacht (1797; published 1800) and Geistliche Lieder (1799)

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Abrams quotes the 18th-century German Romantic Novalis: "The higher philosophy is concerned with the marriage of Nature and Mind."

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022

As Novalis had it, in “poeticizing,” the self demonstrates that it is free.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

That pronouncement, by the German writer Novalis, appears as an epigraph to “The Blue Flower,” Penelope Fitzgerald’s great historical novel about him.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

"This was kind of perfect for us; we're not typical Valentine's people," Novalis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2018

The article on Novalis, in the "Foreign Review" of 1829, No. 7, presents with a master hand the peculiarities of the new metaphysics that were regenerating the German mind.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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