This volume makes accessible for the first time in English Wackenroder's Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (1787). One of the most important documents of early German Romanticism, the Confessions from the Heart of an Art-Loving Friar elevated Albrecht D?rer to a position of significance in art history, strongly influenced the Pre-Raphaelite School of painting and the "Nazarenes," and had a deep impact on such other Romantic authors...