Neo-romanticism
Romanticism or Neo-Romanticism ( " literary youth style " ) is the name for a literary flow around 1890-1915, which saw itself as a counter- movement to naturalism and modernism and continued the contents of romance.
The Neo-Romantic poet showed preference for exotic locations (Middle Ages, Renaissance Italy ), for wonderful and mysterious - magical for the Quirky, for legends, myths and fairy tales; they created mostly in the lyric texts of great perfection of form and refined language.
Suggestions received the romanticism of Symbolism and decadent; close points of contact there was with Impressionism and the seal of the fin de siècle and to the Art Nouveau, which was significantly influenced by the neo-Romanticism.
Significant representatives of Romanticism were:
- The George circle
- Viennese Modernism
- Herbert Eulenberg
- Ernst Hardt
- Gerhart Hauptmann ( inter alia: Hannele Ascension, 1893, The Sunken Bell, 1896)
- Hermann Hesse ( Steppenwolf )
- Ricarda Huch
- Agnes Miegel
- Borries von Munchausen
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Karl Gustav Vollmoeller
- Prince Emil von Schoenaich - Carolath
- Hans Fritz von Zwehl