Political writings. During his lifetime, Novalis wrote two works on political themes, Faith and Love or the King and Queen and his speech Europa, which was posthumously named Christianity or Europe.

What is Novalis famous for?

Novalis is sometimes seen as the paradigmatic figure of German Romanticism: His early death, the illness and death of his young fiancée Sophie a few years earlier—which inspired one of his most famous works, Hymns to the Night—and the sometimes mystical style of his writing have contributed to his reputation as an ...

What is the blue flower in Novalis?

The blue flower, in literary works, a mystic symbol of longing. The lichtblaue Blume first appeared in a dream to the hero of Novalis's fragmentary novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802), who associates it with the woman he loves from afar. The blue flower became a widely recognized symbol among the Romantics.