Hymns to the Night

By Novalis

Book Id: WPLBN0002952295
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File Size: 12.16 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Hymns to the Night
Author:	Novalis
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Poetry
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Hymns to the Night
Historic Publication Date:	1897
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Novalis, B. (1897). Hymns to the Night. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
Hymns to the Night is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a personal mythology of darkness and light, but it is also a free-associative chronicle of a young man rationalizing the untimely death of his fiancé. This version (1897) was translated by influential fantasy author and novelist George MacDonald, who cited it as a great – and early – inspiration. Hymns to the Night is also available to listeners in the original German. (Summary by Pete Williams)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Poetry