Great German Poems of the Romantic Era and Baudelaire's personal letters to

and Baudelaire's personal letters to his mother and female acquaintances

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Great German Poems of the Romantic Era and Baudelaire's personal letters toLyric poetry blossomed in 19th century Germany under the fertilizing influence of Romanticism with its focus on the primacy of the imagination, worship of nature and childhood, dreaminess and nostalgia and preoccupation with thoughts of night and death. Although strictly defined as flourishing from 1798 to 1835, Romanticism is not timebound and German Romantic poetry was written both before and after these dates. Indeed, the 131 poems in this volume