Abstract
The poetics of early Romanticism were influenced by the history of both European philosophy and literature. At present, studies respectively on these two dimensions are comprehensive, but studies focusing on their interaction remain relatively limited. This essay focuses on the mutual influence between philosophy and literature in the poetics of early Romanticism and is mainly divided into two sections. The first section explores the impact of European intellectual traditions, particularly metaphysics, on early Romantic poetics through an analysis of the core concepts of the Jena School, namely “irony” and “fragment.” The second section investigates how the Jena School's understanding of history and fiction informed its creation of “universal poetry,” paving the way for Hegelian phenomenology of spirit and postmodern philosophies, including those of Nietzsche. This exploration of the interplay between “thought” and “poetry” in the Jena School contributes to existing research on early Romanticism and offers new perspectives for the study of literary and intellectual history in related fields.
Keywords
early Romanticism, European metaphysics, irony, fragment, universal poetry
First Page
67
Last Page
75
Recommended Citation
Lu, Yiyun. 2025. "Dialogue between “Thought” and “Poetry”: The Reciprocal Influence of Philosophy and Literature in Early Romantic Poetics." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 45, (3): pp.67-75. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol45/iss3/7
