The first Romantics
"How a close group of brilliant friends,
in a tiny German university town, laid
the foundations of modern consciousness"
— Headline for the article whose URL is . . .
https://aeon.co/essays/
english-romanticism-was-born-from-a-serious-germanomania
The article was published by Aeon on December 20, 2022,
and is featured in today's Arts & Letters Daily . On the author:
"Andrea Wulf is a historian and the award-winning author
of several books, including the bestselling
The Invention of Nature (2015) and, most recently,
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and
the Invention of the Self (2022). She is a Miller Scholar
and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature."
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