Hymns to the Night
by Novalis

Publication date 2008-04-29
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobook, literature, novalis, hymns
LibriVox recording of Hymns to the Night, by Novalis.
Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA.

Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a personal mythology of darkness and light, but it is also a free-associative chronicle of a young man rationalizing the untimely death of his fiancé. This version (1897) was translated by influential fantasy author and novelist George MacDonald, who cited it as a great – and early – inspiration. "Hymns to the Night" is also available to Librivox listeners in the original German. (Summary by Pete Williams)

Hymns to the Night
by Novalis

Publication date 2008-04-29
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobook, literature, novalis, hymns
LibriVox recording of Hymns to the Night, by Novalis.
Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA.

Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a personal mythology of darkness and light, but it is also a free-associative chronicle of a young man rationalizing the untimely death of his fiancé. This version (1897) was translated by influential fantasy author and novelist George MacDonald, who cited it as a great – and early – inspiration. "Hymns to the Night" is also available to Librivox listeners in the original German. (Summary by Pete Williams)

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