The second of ten short talks on defining moments of German Romanticism.
The Magic of the Night
As night fell the romantic imagination truly came alive in its world of shadows, stars and moonlight. From the music of Schumann to the poetry of Novalis, the onset of darkness became synonymous with dream states, reverie and trance. Roger Cardinal puts out the light and peers into the gloom to ask why to be a romantic was to stake everything on the nocturnal impulse.
Next programme tomorrow 9.15pm