Magic flowers jena6/17/2023 ![]() The new Romantic movement was soon to have its own necrology: two promising young men of the new generation died, respectively, in 17, Wackenroder and Novalis Caroline was often ill, surely a contributory factor to the breakdown of her marriage with Schlegel Ludwig Tieck ruined his health in damp and insanitary Jena. ![]() Georg Forster’s death, in the clash of critical and political forces, had been a warning example but even Schiller, who insisted on keeping politics out of critical discourse, found his creativity constantly interrupted by chronic bouts of illness Goethe’s otherwise robust frame almost succumbed. And Goethe’s lightness of touch is often the fruit of immense diligence and great strain’, 2 was the advice Friedrich Schlegel gave to his brother on 17 August 1795, at the outset of that decade of professional writing. Schiller has to pump the thoughts up out of himself with the greatest effort. ‘Do not distract yourself with reading literary trifles. Movements involve real people, competing and jostling, urging themselves to bursts of creativity, sparing neither their nerves nor their physical energies, nor those closest to them. Kinderjahre, Marburger und Landshuter Zeit Friedrich Karl von Savig (.)Ģ There was a human side to all this, and a human cost.
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