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The Student Vagabond

As in a dream the metamorphosis of Romanticism transformed the young writers of Germany. As in a dream they responded to the mystic inspiration of Fichte, uniting in the quest for the blue flower, seeking the impalpable of the ideal. Friedrich Schlegel, opium-wafted Buddha, contemplated the concentric circles of an impenetrably intricate philosophy. August Wilhelm Schlegel, poseur, literateur, bon-viveur, set forth to win poetic glory, is remembered for his translation of Shakespeare. Ludwig Tieck's majestic, melancholy search for the essence of fairyland beauty produced an impossible, capricious comedy, "Puss in Boots." Kleist awakened from his dream of tearing from Goethe's brow the garlands of supremacy which lyric genius had placed, awakened to the ghoulish nightmare of inferiority, blew out his brains. Heine, dying in Paris, oppressed by his own poverty, announced the close of the romantic movement. The mystic images, the gloomy flight from the world, the day of freedom of fancy was over. Today at 12 o'clock in Sever 6 Professor Silz will impart to those who desire it a more perfect conception of the splendid longings of the Romanticists than the Vagabond can hope to convey.

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