A Romantic Ecstasy

Abstract

George Büchner (1813-1837) was a Romantic German writer whose short story "Lenz" (1836) is really a beautiful piece of work. Lenz is an extremely sensitive man able to experiment beauty in an unusual degree. Nature, childhood and religion give him a high sense of spiritual communion in the most holistic sense. The detailed descriptions of nature and his feelings towards it remind Wordsworth's Preface, which in fact is a a very Romantic approach to this realm. The idealisation of nature, child...