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The German Romanticism (n.) appears in German music, thoroughly Romantic, the least Greek of the arts, a corrupter of nerves, twice as dangerous among a people fond of drink who honor obscurity as a virtue.
The German Romanticism (n.) turned piety towards everything that exists into piety towards everything that ever existed, filling heart and spirit so no room was left for new goals — the cult of feeling in place of the cult of reason.
The German Romanticism (n.) had a genius for experiencing the native land not as deserted but as solitary, whatever its population — the territory half-opens onto a Friend who is uncertain and a Loved One already dead.