Constanze Guthenke is Assistant Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.

rich and informative... This is an original book, notable in its scope and the fresh scrutiny brought to Romantic Hellenism.

• Introduction: Realizing the Ideal ; 1. The Form of Greek Landscape ; 2. 'I love it all around, this land of Greece. It has the colour of my heart': The Greek Landscape of the German Soul before 1821 ; 3. Nature in Arms: German Philhellenism, its Literature, and the Greek War of Independence ; 4. The Ambivalence of Nature: Poetry for the Greek State ; 5. Between Idyll and Abyss: The Greek Land, As Seen from the Ionian Islands ; Epilogue

Constanze Guthenke is Assistant Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.

rich and informative... This is an original book, notable in its scope and the fresh scrutiny brought to Romantic Hellenism.

• Introduction: Realizing the Ideal ; 1. The Form of Greek Landscape ; 2. 'I love it all around, this land of Greece. It has the colour of my heart': The Greek Landscape of the German Soul before 1821 ; 3. Nature in Arms: German Philhellenism, its Literature, and the Greek War of Independence ; 4. The Ambivalence of Nature: Poetry for the Greek State ; 5. Between Idyll and Abyss: The Greek Land, As Seen from the Ionian Islands ; Epilogue

Constanze Guthenke is Assistant Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.

rich and informative... This is an original book, notable in its scope and the fresh scrutiny brought to Romantic Hellenism.

• Introduction: Realizing the Ideal ; 1. The Form of Greek Landscape ; 2. 'I love it all around, this land of Greece. It has the colour of my heart': The Greek Landscape of the German Soul before 1821 ; 3. Nature in Arms: German Philhellenism, its Literature, and the Greek War of Independence ; 4. The Ambivalence of Nature: Poetry for the Greek State ; 5. Between Idyll and Abyss: The Greek Land, As Seen from the Ionian Islands ; Epilogue