To such mystical constructions of the inner eye a certain group of German writers who flourished in the beginning of the nineteenth century and were known as the romantics, darkly groped their way out of the confining realities of their own time.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
Already to the romantics of old the mystic road to happiness was not unknown.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
Maturin is stronger in his terror-scenes, and affected his own generation very powerfully: his influence being so great in France that Balzac attempted a variation and continuation, and that there are constant references to the book in the early French romantics.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury