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Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels

Romanticism. Those of us who went to college in the United States or Britain likely were taught about the preeminence of Keats, Shelley, Byron, and their fellow Brits, and not their German predecessors. Wulf’s flawed but fascinating group bio reminds us that the Germans got there first, and in her epilogue, the public acknowledgement of […]

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