Henry Crabb Robinson in Germany: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Life Writing

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775—1867) spent five years in Germany (1800—1805) and became deeply informed about its Romantic literature and philosophy, then at its height in that country. In the course of his enthusiastic embrace of the German language and culture, Robinson built up an intellectual and literary capital that he would draw on for the rest of his long life. The main thrust of this critical and biographical study is to demonstrate that Robinson is an important nineteenth—century life...