Ricarda Huch (1864 - 1947), a writer, poet, philosopher, and historian, created a very extensive body of work that is broad both thematically and stylistically. It includes poems, novels, and especially historical works that are situated between historiography and literature. With this historical prose, she had a significant influence on the historian Golo Mann. Following her book on the heyday of Romanticism, this work from 1902 addresses the spread and decline of the Romantic movement. Huch explores further themes such as the Romantic worldview, new sciences, the Romantic number, the animal in the Romantic worldview, exemplary Romantic biographies (E.T.A. Hoffmann, Brentano), the art of the infinite, Romantic doctors, and Romantic politics. This is a reprint of the original edition.