delit1-6, Exercise 1: Characteristics of German Romanticism

Model answer (one possible set; check the details):

1. Longing for the distant or the infinite: Novalis's blue flower in Heinrich von Ofterdingen and the Hymns to the Night.
2. Nature, wandering and song: Eichendorff's forest poems and the Taugenichts, much of it set to music.
3. The uncanny and the strange side of the mind: Hoffmann's The Sandman, with its double and automaton.

Others that would also serve: the interest in the folk and its tales (the Grimms), the preference for the fragment and open form (the Jena circle), and ironic play with convention (Heine).

Note that these are tendencies described by later critics, and individual writers rarely show all of them.