ABSTRACT
These lines, taken from the poem An Tieck [To Tieck] (1800) by Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), explicitly linked the Romantic hope for universal renewal with Jacob Boehme’s name. Indeed, Boehme’s writings played an important role in the literature of German Romanticism around 1800. It was Novalis’s friend Ludwig Tieck who had introduced Boehme’s works to the literary and philosophical circle of the young Romantics in Jena, thus preparing the ground for the texts’ revival and assigning them a key role in Romantic reflections on new concepts of art, religion, and nature.
