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NATURAL MAGIC AND MODERN SCIENCE IN THE POETIC WORKS OF NOVALIS AND SHELLEY (ALCHEMY, ROMANTIC, NEOPLATONISM, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY).

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Title/Author:	NATURAL MAGIC AND MODERN SCIENCE IN THE POETIC WORKS OF NOVALIS AND SHELLEY (ALCHEMY, ROMANTIC, NEOPLATONISM, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY)./
Author:	BIEL, TIMOTHY LEVI.
Description:	1 online resource (188 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-10, Section: A, page: 3752.
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NATURAL MAGIC AND MODERN SCIENCE IN THE POETIC WORKS OF NOVALIS AND SHELLEY (ALCHEMY, ROMANTIC, NEOPLATONISM, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY).
BIEL, TIMOTHY LEVI.

NATURAL MAGIC AND MODERN SCIENCE IN THE POETIC WORKS OF NOVALIS AND SHELLEY (ALCHEMY, ROMANTIC, NEOPLATONISM, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY). - 1 online resource (188 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-10, Section: A, page: 3752.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington State University, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references

Although the English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was twenty years younger than the German Romantic poet, Novalis, he never read Novalis' work. Despite this fact, however, many of the poetic works of these two Romantic poets reveal an extraordinary philosophic similarity. This emerges primarily from their attempts to "galvanize" their knowledge of philosophy and natural science into mystical truth.

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Comparative literature.
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NATURAL MAGIC AND MODERN SCIENCE IN THE POETIC WORKS OF NOVALIS AND SHELLEY (ALCHEMY, ROMANTIC, NEOPLATONISM, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY).
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520 $a Few poets or men of letters have studied both philosophy and natural science as intently as did Novalis and Shelley. Certainly no other Romantic poets used such extensive scientific knowledge in their creative works. This dissertation shows how the study of philosophy and science led to a remarkable similarity in Novalis' and Shelley's treatment of Nature. The most conspicuous resemblance is between Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. Although the former is a novel containing a mixture of prose and verse, while the latter is a lyrical drama, the two works share a profound similarity in both substance and structure.
520 $a Like Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Prometheus Unbound is structured to portray three stages in a mythic cycle: first, an earthly paradise or golden age, then the fall from this state of innocence, and finally a new paradise on earth. Both poets use scientific knowledge as an important instrument for this final redemption. This application of science for mystical ends is a renewal of the medieval and Renaissance tradition of natural magic. Novalis and Shelley were disenchanted with the static, mechanical perception of the universe propagated by eighteenth-century thought. In their poetry they applied the mystical precepts of alchemy and Neoplatonism to the most current scientific theories and findings of their day.
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