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The Romantic European Literature Index


By Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D.
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Sketch of the Guillotine

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive

This page should be supplemented by the English Romantics Page, which lists British authors of this period. For the most part, British authors will not be listed here, nor will Americans. *Please note that, with the exception of Goethe, this list consists of carefully selected outside links to the individual authors.

*Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 - 1778 ).
*Denis Diderot ( 1713 - 1784 ).
*Immanuel Kant ( 1724 -1802 ).
*Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 - 1781 ).
*Pierre Augustin De Beaumarchais ( 1732 - 1799 ).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 - 1832 ).
*Friedrich von Schiller ( 1759 - 1805 ).
*François René Chateaubriand ( 1768 - 1848 ).
*Friedrich Hölderlin ( 1770 -1843 ).
*Heinrich von Kleist ( 1777 -1811 ).
*Stendhal ( 1783 - 1842 ).
*Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856).
*Alexander Pushkin ( 1799 - 1837 ).
*Honoré de Balzac ( 1799 - 1850 ).
*Victor Hugo ( 1802 - 1885 ).
*George Sand ( 1804 - 1876 ).
*Nikolai Gogol ( 1809 - 1852 ).
*Mikhail Lermontov ( 1814 - 1841 ).

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