ungezogenheit

Updated: July 28, 2026

In mixing all species, Romanticism amounts to unchartered freedom, "die gesunde, kräftige Ungezogenheit." It is no wonder that so many of its literary works remain unfinished fragments, and that many of its exponents led unregulated lives. "Get you irony, and form yourself to urbanity" is the counsel of Friedrich Schlegel.

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes