Fitzgerald, Penelope, — The Blue Flower.

Boston, Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, (1995). 12th ptg. VG PB. Set in age of Goethe in small towns & great universities of late- 18th cent. Germany, true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg. a student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. Fritz wants to be betrothed to what his parents say is a 12 yr old dullard. The irrationality of love, transfiguration of the commonplace, clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one's own fate.