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German Romantic movement

Movement
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A literary and artistic movement in late 18th–early 19th century Germany emphasizing emotion, imagination, and nationalism.

Detailed Definition
The German Romantic movement was a late 18th- to early 19th-century literary and philosophical current emphasizing emotion, nature, the sublime, and the fragmented self; poets like Novalis and Hölderlin explored mysticism, folk traditions, and inner subjectivity, reacting against Enlightenment rationalism and laying groundwork for modern lyric introspection and organic form.
Example
Example in poetry:
Novalis’s Hymns to the Night — mystical nature poetry; Friedrich Schlegel’s fragments blending poetry and philosophy; Ludwig Tieck’s fairy-tale poems; E.T.A. Hoffmann’s lyrical tales merging dream and reality.
Additional Notes
German Romantic movement (late 18th–early 19th c.) emphasized nature, emotion, and the sublime. Key for Jena/Heidelberg schools—contrast with English Romanticism.
Also Known As
Early German Romanticism Jena-Heidelberg school Romantic idealism German lyrical movement German Romanticism (Early, High, Late)
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