Novalis Including Hymns to the Night

Novalis is unique among the romantic poets and philosophers. An extraordinarily sensitive, spiritual, and far-seeing individual, he died before his twenty-ninth birthday, his life overshadowed by both the death of his beloved, and his intense vision of death and the night as doorway to the world of spirit.

This compilation includes George MacDonald's translations of the Hymns to the Night, Spiritual Songs, and a fragment from Disciples at Sais, as well as Thomas Carlyle's extensive biographical essay, which further includes fragments from his "Pollen" or aphorisms. It provides an in depth introduction to the work and character of Novalis.