Romanticism in Germany and England. Zhirmunsky V.M.

Outstanding Soviet linguist and literary critic V.M. Zhirmunsky made an exceptional contribution to the development of many branches of philological science, including general and comparative linguistics, dialectology, folklorism, poetry, etc. The subject of the constant interest of the researcher was a romantic direction, especially pronounced in the work of German and English writers.

This publication is a collection of selected works by a scientist dedicated to this topic. For the first time gathered together, they allow you to see romanticism as an integral ideological and artistic phenomenon, which developed according to its own internal laws in the literature of Germany and England. The last part of the book examines the phenomenon of Goethe as a teacher of European romanticism. The combination of academic severity and poetic expressiveness, congenial chosen object, makes the publication interesting not only for specialists, but also for everyone who is interested in the era of romanticism.