Phantastes
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald published in London in 1858.
Frontispiece and title page, illustrated by John Bell
Dark thoughts by Arthur Hughes
Novalis
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an infl
Phantastes
…in London in 1858. The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. The story concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady…
Portrait, c. 1799
Oberwiederstedt castle
Sophie von Kühn
Novalis house plaque, Freiberg