Novalis

Hymns to the Night, published in 1800, turns grief, death, and Christian longing into a central work of early German Romanticism. It was shaped by Novalis's mourning for Sophie von Kuhn, who died young in 1797.

No. Novalis was the pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a German writer born in 1772.

The blue flower appears in Novalis's unfinished novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. It became one of the most famous symbols of German Romanticism, standing for longing, poetry, and spiritual searching.

No. Novalis wrote poems, fragments, philosophical notes, and the unfinished novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen before his death in 1801. His short life made his fragmentary writings especially important to later Romantic readers.