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Rousseau and Romanticism

Note 103 — Chapter IV · ROMANTIC MORALITY: THE IDEAL

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“Die Romanze auf einem Pferde” utters the following lines in the Prologue to Tieck’s Kaiser Octavianus:

Mondbeglänzte Zaubernacht, Die den Sinn gefangen hält, Wundervolle Märchenwelt Steig’ auf in der alten Pracht.

A special study might be made of the rôle of the moon in Chateaubriand and Coleridge—even if one is not prepared like Carlyle to dismiss Coleridge’s philosophy as “bottled moonshine.”

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