Erich von Däniken

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey written by Williams Wordsworth is a very well known poem. Being a Generation one poet Wordsworth is also compared with Robert Burns and William Blake, all of whom were extremely acknowledge as brilliant men in their writings. Just as Robert Burns does in his poetry William Wordsworth's takes simple ideas and moves to more complex ideas. In the introduction to Tintern Abbey Wordsworth is traveling to an old medieval church that he had visited five…

Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian born in Lucerne to a well-established family. Von Balthasar joined the Society of Jesus in 1929 upon the completion of his dissertation. At the leading of Henri de Lubac, von Balthasar studied Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor where he discovered a hope for the salvation of the world. During his time as a chaplain in Basle, von Balthasar met the protestant theologian Karl Barth, who would go on to become close friend and major…

with some of you that I am sure will last a lifetime. “If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be”. ~Johann Wolfgang Von…

In the late eighteenth century, a breakthrough in literature came about, romanticism. Romanticism freed the author to write however they pleased, whether it be with emotion, passion, etc. Readers all over craved it; it excited their imaginations and toyed with their emotions like no other work could do. In a sense, romanticism was an escape from reality for these everyday folk. Not all were in love with the romanticism works, though. Some people, such as realists, opposed the idea of romanticism…

Romanticism, a literary and cultural movement from the early 19th century, rebelled against its predecessor, the Enlightenment, which stressed logic over emotion. By valuing nature, the unknown, and the supernatural, Romanticism was based in emotion over logic. This was especially seen in literature, when authors would use nature to reflect mood, as is evident in Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein. Shelley cleverly uses nature to not only reflect the mood of her characters, but to also represent the…

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, having been written in the 19th century, was heavily influenced by the Romantic movement, as seen through three recurring romantic elements. The first of these three is the rejection of neoclassicism, and an emphasis of individual creativity and thought over logic and order. This element is best exemplified through Faust’s inability to ascertain the information he so seeks through logical methods, resulting in his attempts to use magic and subsequent blood-pact…

German Romanticism is a movement in both the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century. Goethe’s Erlkönig, and ETA Hoffman’s The Sandman are both German Romantic pieces of literature. The creators of each of these pieces would view Shakespeare’s Macbeth as a German Romantic play even though it predated the movement. This is because Shakespeare’s Macbeth implements many of the same techniques which Goethe and ETA Hoffman employ throughout their works and which were…

Commencing in the early eighteenth century, the Romantic era sought not only to transform the essence of human experience through challenging the unyielding and judicious constraints in the social and political realms of neoclassicism but also to introduce revolutionarily eccentric ways of thinking, whilst provoking the ideals and notions of the period through movements in arts and literature. Mary Wollstonecraft’s earliest work of feminist philosophy “A Vindication in the Rights of Women”…

During the Romanticism period there was a great deal of individual thought and personal imagination. It was a time for literary and intellectual movement from when America gained independence from England. Although this literary movement originated in Europe and then transferred on to us, we were establishing cultural independence during the Romanticism time period of about 1800-1860. A fair share of poems came from this time period, as they were a big influence, like Henry Wadsworth…

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe, said Albert Einstein, a famous physicist who developed the theory of relativity. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's most influential play Faust, there is a clear depiction of the characteristic polarity between the individual and the whole, in other words, between Microcosm and Macrocosm. The play itself, so as the main character, Faust, strongly privilege the macrocosmic perspective. Faust's vision of the Macrocosm is more complex than…