The Poetic Genius of early Romanticism. Creative manifestation as a drive towards infinity
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Keywords

Romanticism
poetic genius
Friedrich Schlegel
William Blake
progressive universal

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The Poetic Genius of early Romanticism. Creative manifestation as a drive towards infinity. (2025). Journal of Philosophy of the University of Costa Rica, 60(157). https://doi.org/10.15517/revfil.2021.47485

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze the concept of Romantic Poetic Genius as the maximum creative manifestation that does not aspire to synthesis, but to place itself beyond the need to achieve any synthesis, tending towards a different concept of infinity with respect to absolute idealism.

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