The Romantic Sensibility II

Tuesday, December 6, 2022


Goethe in the Roman Campagna (Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Oil on canvas, 1786)

This class will feature a special presentation by Dr. Dena Levine: Romanticism in Music

Read before class:

  • Goethe, Poetry and Truth, Conversations with Eckermann (CP 139-142)
  • Schiller, Ode to Joy (CP 143-144)
  • Adam Mickiewicz, Selections (CP 145)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Diary 1801 (Colombia Reader 517-521)
  • Thomas Moore, “The Last Rose of Summer”; “The Minstrel Boy” (CP 146)