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Access 2002 VBA Handbook
Susann Novalis , and Dana Jones
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How Far Can You Go with Access 2002?
The answer depends on your knowledge of VBA programming. If you really want to get the most out of Access, the Access 2002 VBA Handbook is essential reading. If you are an experienced user of Access, you get the step-by-step instruction you need to be dramatically more productive. And if you are a more experienced developer, you get the advanced VBA programming skills you need to build the Access applications your users require. Coverage includes
* Running queries to find specific records
* Automating complex and time-consuming procedures
* Importing data from existing data sources
* Synchronizing forms and tables
* Understanding the ADO and DAO models
* Understanding the essentials of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
* Customizing the Access user interface
* Creating procedures to change Access's default error-handling processes
* Accessing data using OLE DB and ODBC
* Creating VBA procedures for navigating a database or project
* Writing VBA procedures using object properties and methods
* Creating relationships between forms
* Executing commands using SQL statements in VBA code
* Using ActiveX controls in your VBA procedures

Customer Reviews:

Can't use it enough!.......2006-09-07

This book has been all that I hoped it would be. I use it as a tutorial one day and a reference the next. I was a beginner Access VBA developer and now with this book I have become much more comfortable around VBA. So much more comfortable that I have developed 4 financial Access applications that are going to be used by multiple departments. I recently picked up the Access 2002 Developer's Handbook Set which is a little more advanced but I keep coming back to this one.

With a little study and committment.......2004-08-25

I started using Access a few years ago as an adjunct of Microsoft Office, creating simple databases for my Christmas card list and such. Then about a year ago, because of work, I had the opportunity to dig deeper. Where to start? I began with Alison Balter's Mastering Access 2002 Desktop Development, a frustrating and disorganised tome that seemed to be missing all of the secret handshakes, signals and knowledge I longed for to unlock the supposed power of Microsoft Access. Every time it appeared Ms. Balter was going to get to the actual point and impart the wisdom I was seeking...she swiftly moved on to another topic. The book didn't even serve to help me clarify the mind-boggling vocabulary necessary to describe and understand the application. To me, Ms. Balter seemed like somebody whom, if they possessed a lot of knowledge, wasn't giving any of it away. A job change took care of my deadline but I was still intrigued and inherited a larger project when I committed myself to writing a custom database application for my partner's administrative needs. I needed help and serious instruction to achieve the application designs I had in my head.

I turned to Getz, Litwin & Baron's Access Cookbook (1st edition), thinking I could hi-jack some off the shelf solutions and, if not actually learn to write Access VBA, at least tweak the code they supplied to suit my starry-eyed custom application needs. Not a bad idea. Problem was, as intriguing as the book is, it's really for experienced developers looking to take their skills in another direction (skyward). Very strong on methodology too, which is important, but it wasn't exactly getting me off the launch pad (it wasn't even getting me off my mouse pad, to be more accurate).

Seven months on, two books later and still no real understanding of Access VBA. I checked out Getz, Litwin & Gunderloy's Access 2002 Developer's Handbook Set and was ready to dig deep...but one really needs to know the basics and fundamentals of Access VBA to keep up (otherwise it's like reading a foreign language of which you have very little knowledge). One hundred pages in and I sensed that I had skipped a grade and it wasn't going to get any easier. Even Ken Getz & Co. were repeatedly pointing me toward Novalis & Jones' Access 2002 VBA Handbook (useful for 2003 as well) and I can honestly say, after a few months procrastinating and about 2.5 - 3 weeks of focused study, without any previous programming knowledge or experience, I can now read an Access VBA procedure and understand what is actually going on. It's like I'm speaking their language!

Novalis and Jones are thorough and precise to a fault. Despite the repetitive vocabulary of Access application development, they do a stunning job of continually moving the reader along, down what is, it has to be said, a very tricky and treacherous path. ("Each AccessObject object has an AccessObjectProperties collection object, sometimes just referred to as Properties, a collection object that stores custom properties for the object. Each AccessObjectProperty in the AccessObjectProperties collection object itself has two properties: Name and Value." Don't worry, by the time you get to Chapter 13, from whence that comes, it'll just make you chuckle instead of sweat.) If you've ever tried to learn Access VBA and have been left scratching your head wondering what some author's glib explanation is supposed to actually mean, you won't be disappointed in this book. Novalis and Jones will not leave you behind.

The experience of reading the book is like one of taking a university course called Access VBA 101. You have to concentrate and focus while you do your reading. There are procedures aplenty throughout the book with step-by-step demonstrations and explanations about how to write Access VBA. The book is very well structured with regular variation between activity and explanation. (You will be inclined to start writing customisations and applying your newfound knowledge to the code samples as the book continues.) All of the samples are immediately applicable to the kind of useful procedures you'll want to include in your custom database application--in very simple form. This book is about foundations, however, it is an end in itself because you could finish it and start writing your own procedures. I have 12 different sections specifically earmarked for functionality that I want to include in my application, which is pretty useful. Their section on Creating and Modifying Database Objects (Chapter 14) has given me plenty of ideas about coding tools I want to write to flesh out the VBA IDE and write my code faster. Did I mention that 3 weeks ago I couldn't even read Access VBA?

If at times the book feels like it's hard going, it probably has more to do with the subject itself (maybe I should've taken a few more breaks). You will hit a few walls but everything is surmountable; I made it all the way through the book (save the DAO Appendix) and all of their code worked for me (be careful in Chapter 13 "Working with Groups of Records...", however, because a couple of their early procedures in the chapter will break some of the later ones). Not a quick start and at least a month or so of Sundays but for those looking to lay a solid foundation in Access VBA, this is a wise investment of time and money. I now feel that I know the depth and power of Access using VBA programming and when you're trying to learn and utilise something this complex, that's half the battle.

Not for the hands on learner.......2004-02-13

I am in chapter 3 and have decided to set the book aside and look for a more hands on approach. It's my learning style. I learn a lot more from a technical book (on a new topic) where you work through more examples. Once I have gone through a book with more examples I suspect that the theoretical approach will be more meaningful. I will come back to read this book at a later time.

Excellent work!.......2004-01-29

You have done the graphical interfaces of Access to the limit and You need more theoretical knowledge to climb a step further, so your projects can advance for their accomplishments.This book will give You high quality information, meaning knowledge that is in harmony with other sciences, for instance mathematics.You will not find usefull new examples of code, once the book is based on the Access Samples (Northwind), thanks God! You wont find the icecream shop, or the whisky bottlement, or the video rent,etc.These originalities are meaningless to the understanding of the structure of VBA. You will not find that a number divided by zero is zero, or that x = x + 1, without further explanations, and that programming has a special type of logic that blows up whatever You thought credible. So I would advise to buy the book because it is an excellent work, linking the many areas of knowledge in a deep way, although the subjects are managed with as few words as possible, enough to You understand how VBA is conceived.

There are better books available.......2003-11-20

I upgraded from Access 2000 to Access 2002 and wanted a 2002 reference so based on reviews from other sites I bought this book. I have turned to it time and time again only to be disappointed time and time again. I haven't learned really anything from this book and judge the $60 I spent for it a total waste of money. A MUCH better book is the Access 2002 Developer's Hanbook by Paul Litwin etc.

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Very well written and presented...
Do Not Buy This Book
A book for desperate times
Not as good as it could have been
very good

Access 97 Macro & VBA Handbook
Susann Novalis
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Access 97 Macro & VBA Handbook is a comprehensive guide to using macro and VBA programming to create custom database applications with Microsoft's Access 97. Building on your basic knowledge of Access, this book takes you to the next level. Master the skills you'll need to both automate complex processes and design and deliver applications that meet user's exacting requirements.

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Very well written and presented..........2004-08-12

This is my second book on Access. I find this book to be very well written. Many users are complaining about examples that don't work. I think this is intentional on the part of the author. I look at it as an impromptu test. Any good instructor will give you periodic exams. Look at the examples that don't work as exams.

Do Not Buy This Book.......2004-04-05

This could have been a good book, but Query by Form does not work as described in the book. Page 395 indicates that you can choose the Remove Filter/Sort command in the Records menu... and all records are displayed. Not true. Also, automated filter removal using macros (chapter 9) and DoCmd (chapter 18) do not work. You cannot drag Customer ID from the field list to the form, it is not in the list using the database on the supplied CD. Too many errors and omissions to be a usefull book.

A book for desperate times.......2000-03-17

This is not a good book to cuddle up with. I am a not-so-newbie with Access and when I had a difficult problem it was this book that saved me. There are two kinds of difficulties I have with Access: the obvious problems whose answers are staring me in the face, and the non-intuitive nit-picky boring problems that last for a week. This book is for the second type of problem

Not as good as it could have been.......1999-07-14

When I flipped through the book in the store, it looked pretty good, better than the other book I looked at. (Access 97 Power Programming) Unfortunately, once I got down to using it, it left a lot to be desired. The main thing I was hoping for was a good, in depth, lesson on DAO. The examples are about on par with the ones in the online help, ie. they cover the trivial case, but don't really help with more typical cases. Also, as mentioned by someone else, there are far to many typos, especially in the examples. I didn't come close to trying every example, but there were several that didn't work as printed. Finally, why were the tables and appendices put on the CD instead of in the book where they belong? For the first day I had the book, I couldn't look at any of the tables, since my computer at work doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. All in all, it's not a bad book, but I can't recommend it at its full retail price. By the time bookstores are blowing it out cheap, it'll be 3 versions out of date, so there's really no reason not to buy something else.

very good.......1999-07-07

It's a good book, but i think it could be better if you don't be so tecnical

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Access 2000 VBA Handbook
Thank goodness for Susan Norvalis
Not useful for developers
Poorly written text did not follow CD
Confusing

Access 2000 VBA Handbook
Susann Novalis
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Database front ends are the bread and butter of most Visual Basic programmers, so it pays to know how to build them well (and as efficiently as possible). Access 2000 VBA Handbook does a good job of explaining the power of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and how it can be used to create custom interfaces on top of Access 2000 databases. This is a well-written, comprehensively researched book well-suited to aspiring Access developers. It's also a fine resource for programmers who use older versions of Access and want to learn more about the newest version, particularly the new DAO-centric approach to transactions.

The writing style will appeal to those with a modicum of familiarity in general programming concepts and procedures--the sort of knowledge one can gain in a university-level survey programming course. It documents core VBA as it applies to Access but concentrates mostly on explaining the tools available to solve various problems. The book doesn't go overboard with code listings--a greater number of explicitly stated solutions to problems would have made it better. Instead, it presents long, annotated lists of options and parameters. It also documents lots of step-by-step procedures involving Access's graphical user interface. --David Wall

<B>Topics covered</B>: The Database Wizard, the VBA programming environment, basic VBA data and control structures, form design, record manipulation, and Structured Query Language (SQL). Object model coverage includes the Access object model, Data Access Objects (DAO) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), with data-access emphasis on DAO.

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Want to get the most out of Access? Then you need to know VBA.

Access 2000 is here, and never has the power of Access depended so much on VBA programming. This makes the Access 2000 VBA Handbook essential reading if you want to use Microsoft's popular database product to its full advantage. If you're an Access user, you'll benefit from step-by-step coverage of VBA basics that will simplify your work. If you're a developer, you'll master the high-end techniques introduced in the latest release-so you can stay on top of your job.

You'll learn how to:
* Create databases and projects
* View and print reports
* Run queries to find specific records
* Automate complex and time-consuming procedures
* Synchronize forms and tables
* Understand the ADO and DAO models
* Customize the user interface
* Access data using OLE DB and ODBC
* Create VBA procedures for navigating a database or project
* Use object properties and methods to write VBA procedures
* Create relationships between forms
* Execute commands using SQL statements in VBA code
* Use ActiveX controls in your VBA procedures

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Access 2000 VBA Handbook.......2005-09-29

Good book. Easy to find the answers to my questions and get back to work. Good examples and written with clear explanations that get to the point.

Good Day.

Thank goodness for Susan Norvalis.......2004-05-25

This book really stands out from the crowd. Most VBA texts are written by great programmers who are terrible teachers. Not in this case - Using VBA to unlock the power of MS Access is thoroughly and clearly explained - from concepts such as database design and objects to JET, DAO/ADO and beyond. The author shows how to do everything that you can do with Macros, how to do many things that you can't do without VB and then how to most efficiently do all of them! Most useful is the clear way in which the book shows how to perform tasks efficiently in interactive (Forms) and automated (DAO/ADO Recordset manipulation) ways and when to choose each- this book will remain an invaluable tool in my library and be referenced often.

Not useful for developers.......2003-12-08

I must agree with other reviewers. In spite of a good knowledge of Access the reading of this book does not help to write practical applications, and is very frustrating. The author jumps from topic to topic and gives very little code that can be used in real life situations. I would qualify this book as no more than a broad and theoretical overview.

Poorly written text did not follow CD.......2003-04-03

There was a lot of material in this book, but it has nearly all presented elsewhere better and more clearly. This basically reads like a book that somebody put together by cutting and pasting from other books on the market. There was not any kind of help with problems that users would encounter in the real world.
I would say this book is about 80% filler. Not worth the money.

Confusing.......2003-03-27

The book illustrates data that is not in the referenced database and discusses information in a database that is on the supplied CD. However, the author does not reveal the password for the database for an additional 20 pages. That database is also encrypted so that it is virtually useless since the author discusses making changes to it.

Very poorly written.

Novalis: Philosophical Writings
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Not another Nagasaki

Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Novalis
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Novalis: Philosophical Writings is the first extensive scholarly translation in English from the philosophical work of the late eighteenth-century German Romantic writer Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg). His original and innovative thought explores many questions that are current today, such as truth and objectivity, reason and the imagination, language and mind, and revolution and the state.

The translation includes two collections of fragments published by Novalis in 1798, Miscellaneous Observations and Faith and Love, and the controversial essay Christendom or Europe. In addition there are substantial selections from his unpublished notebooks, including Logological Fragments, the General Draft for an encyclopedia, the Monologue on language, and the essay on Goethe as scientist.

"A reliable, faithful, and readable English translation of Novalis's influential philosophical and aesthetic writings has been a conspicuous desideratum in Anglo-Saxon scholarship on German Romanticism. Stoljar's book fills this gap in every respect and is, therefore, most welcome and timely. The translation is impeccable and reflects the often highly complex original texts most felicitously. Stoljar's introduction is a model of sound and up-to-date critical scholarship: it provides circumspect exposure to Novalis as an independent and imaginative thinker, situates and characterizes the individual texts in the overall context of Novalis's conceptual universe, and abounds in clearly formulated interpretive insights.

"In Stoljar's lucid translation, Novalis's writings come across as fascinating and seminal as they are in the German original; the collection is a veritable eye-opener for anyone concerned with the wide-ranging impact of the best of German Romantic thought on subsequent developments in European literature, philosophy, history, science, psychology, music, the visual arts, etc., in other words, across the entire cultural landscape through the nineteenth century to the present." -- Steven Paul Scher, Dartmouth College

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Not another Nagasaki.......2003-11-06

Early in the Introduction, Margaret Mahony Stoljar proclaims, "In his original, unprejudiced, and undogmatic questioning of any issue that interests him, Novalis displays to a remarkable degree the kind of innovative thought that will characterize the Romantic movement throughout Europe. Being a practicing scientist and creative writer as well as possessing a comprehensive approach to theoretical inquiry that in his time was what was meant by `philosophical,' Novalis engages with a wider spectrum of questions than do most of his contemporaries. But it is his readiness to subject any philosophical concept to radical interrogation that marks his published and unpublished work as of enduring interest. For contemporary readers accustomed to the critique of the categories of reason that has followed in the wake of Nietzsche, Novalis's writings can seem uncannily pertinent. They address issues that in recent years have continued to expand the parameter of our thinking on truth and objectivity, language and mind, symbol and representation, reason and the imagination. In form and style too, Novalis's manuscripts demonstrate the associative fluidity of thought characteristic of Nietzsche." (pp. 1-2). There are no entires in the index for Nietzsche and Derrida. In this translation, Novalis sees philosophy as a progression from passive thinking to magical idealism, at least in number 33 of the Teplitz Fragments:

"An empiricist is: one whose way of thinking is an effect of the external world and of fate--the passive thinker--to whom his philosophy is given. Voltaire is a pure empiricist and so are several French philosophers--Ligne tends imperceptibly to the transcendent empiricists. These make the transition to the dogmatists. From there the way leads to the enthusiasts--or the transcendent dogmatists--then to Kant--then to Fichte--and finally to magical idealism." (p. 107).

There is not much of a story in what happened to Novalis because he died young, in March 1801, while Kant (1724-1804) was still alive. By the time Novalis published POLLEN in the winter of 1797-1798, Kant had accepted a ban on publicly speaking or writing about religion, but he was about to declare that he did not consider the ban binding after the death of King Frederick William II in 1797. Novalis's first fiancee, Sophie, died in March 1797 at the age of fifteen. "King Frederick William III and Queen Luise of Prussia ascended the throne at the end of 1797." (p. 16). Papers were eager to publish anything that would make this look like a great event, and soon thereafter "Novalis had already achieved a degree of notoriety as a political thinker with his second published collection of fragments, FAITH AND LOVE OR THE KING AND QUEEN, which appeared in July 1798 in the Berlin journal `Yearbooks of the Prussian Monarchy.'" (p. 16).

Frankly, the attitude I find most clearly in FAITH AND LOVE OR THE KING AND QUEEN reminds me of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), who had a doctrine of correspondences that arose from a spirit similar to a selection on the first page of this work by Novalis:

"4. One finds what one loves everywhere, and sees similarities everywhere. The greater the love the more extensive and manifold is this similar world. My beloved is the abbreviation of the universe, the universe is the extension of my beloved. To the lover of learning, all its branches offer garlands and remembrances for his beloved." (p. 85).

Finding ourselves in a modern world, in which shock and awe have become the standard tactic for dealing with anyone who has claimed kingly powers for too long, and a people who have always been promised perfect innocence are often driven to wipe the slate clean after observing the monster which has been created since the preceding last act, thinking about royal situations, we are apt to remember the incineration of Nagasaki, near the end of World War Two, as a gift to the emperor of Japan, which would allow him to openly advocate unconditional surrender without any loss of face, because atomic bombs represented a power superior to anything that a mere royal highness might possess. Most readers might leave such thoughts unthunk, but this book is a blend of political thinking with poetic power that stumbles mainly because it can no longer be our book. Death is in the index, and mentioned early in this book's first selections, MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS:

"11. Death is a victory over the self--which, like all self-conquest, brings about a new, easier existence." (p. 24).

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A strange, ingenious novel, the most representative work of early German Romanticism! This extraordinary fusion of novel, fairy tale, and poem, published posthumously in 1802, is the most representative work of early German Romanticism. It reflects, in part, events in the life of its author, who is best known for his Hymns to the Night. Young Henry, a medieval poet who seeks the mysterious Blue Flower with the lovely face of the yet unknown Mathilda, sets out on a journey that is interspersed with beautiful tales and exquisite songs. Henry's "education," as he catches first glimpses of the world, is of special interest to students of philosophy as well as literature, for ingeniously involved in literary form is the crux of Fichte's mysticism. Novalis, like Rouseeau, makes an interesting contribution to the "supreme realism" that transcends the ordinary. Henry von Ofterdingen is an important landmark in the history of literature and the most distinguished work of its brilliant and tragic author.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic!.......2001-11-28

This is one of my favorite Romantic novels. It is filled with amazing imagery, fairy tales and myths mutated into new forms, and a powerful dialectic. Sadly, the novel was never finished by Novalis, but it is definitely worth the read anyway. Much of this book is based on Novalis' (Friedrich von Hardenberg) own life. If you would like to read another great novel that deals with Novalis' life, look at Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower.

Where's the Beef?.......2001-05-24

Coming to this book I only knew Novalis as a master of poetry, not as a novelist. And now I know why. The novel centers on Henry, a budding scholar and would-be poet who has had a vision. In this vision he sees a blue flower, and in its shape, the image of an unknown woman and he feels he must discover her identity. As he travels to Augsburg in the company of some merchants and his mother, he encounters many interesting personalities before he comes face to face with his dream. This book suffers mostly because of the eighteenth century tradition of digression. For instance, in one scene where Henry meets with an older poet and asks him to tell him a fairy tale, the tale itself eats up 20 pages of this novel. The tales that surround the main novel are thin, transparent, and lifeless. And what is left of the book is either taken up by philosophical or merely descriptive prose. While I highly recommend reading the authors "Hymns to the Night" this book is boring at best and awful at worst.

A Great Treasure.......1999-09-29

I had been looking for this book for awhile and I finally found it here. It is full of amazing imagery. This copy is in English in case the discription is unclear.

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Hymns to the Night Spiritual Songs
Novalis , and Sergei O. Prokofieff
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PRACTICAL AND READABLE

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Peter N., M.D. Novalis , Stephen J., M.D. Rojcewicz , and Roger, M.D. Peele
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PRACTICAL AND READABLE.......2003-05-22

This handbook is perfect for the second year psychiatric resident on an inpatient service, or the mental health practicum/intern student in a community mental health center. The authors review basic concepts of psychotherapy and then apply them to the individuals with serious mental illnesses seen in these settings.

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This bilingual, revised, third edition of Dick Higgins' popular translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Frederich von Hardenburgh's classic romantic long poem, and the substantially different manuscript version of the first section. The German text is en face. The six hymns comprise a deeply affecting poem that speaks across the centuries with unquestioned radiance.

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Brilliant Poems; Dreadful Translation.......2005-08-28

Five stars for the *Hymns*; zero stars for the (mis)translation

Novalis's *Hymns to the Night* are a true gem of late 18th-Century Romantic poetry. A brilliant and original mingling of prose-poetry and verse, the *Hymns* celebrate night, darkness, and death as bearers of tremendous revelation. They do so in supple, elegant, and sensuous language filled with yearning for a deeper reality than that which gaudy daylight reveals. Particularly notable is the erotic dimension of this Romantic yearning, or *Sehnsucht*, that Novalis daringly offers the reader.

Given the above, one can only react with disgust at Dick Higgins's vulgar travesty of the *Hymns*. His specious and, not to put too fine a point on it, idiotic rationalization for butchering this work is that Novalis's language was modern for its time; therefore, to preserve that flavor, it should be rendered into the modern "poetic" idiom of, say, William Carlos Williams and other banal writers of simple prose disguised as poetry by dividing it into lines and pseudo-stanzas. Higgins has simplified Novalis to the point of idiocy.

Those English-speaking readers who wish to read the *Hymns* as Novalis wrote them should consult the Charles Passage and George Macdonald translations. They are hardly perfect, but, unlike Higgin's's misbegotten manglings, they represent Novalis's magnificent *Hymns* with at least a modicum of their original dignity intact. It would be wonderful to have a competent and faithful contemporary translation of the *Hymns*. Higgin's translation, however, is not that work. *Caveat lector*.

Poetry and Philosophy.......2003-04-13

The German culture can be said to oscillate between two extremes. The first is the predisposition to obsessively systematize and classify life's experience into knowledge with a calm and indifferent demeanor. The second is the reverse tendency to discard the rational and dive off into the realm of the fantastic and the perverse, the moody and the emotionally erratic. Novalis presents a fascinating case study in paradoxically representing both of the tendencies. His "Hymns to the Night" are filled with despair, longing, and a visionary quality that sort of puts one into a trance when reading. However hidden beneath this highly charged emotional atmosphere are layers of allegory and thought. Hence what we have here is that unique poem which combines a very human story of loss, sorrow, and grief with intriguing philosophical meditations on love, [end of life], religion, resurrection, and the relation of mind and body. Much more could be said and should be said. But additional details would spoil the joy of discovering the beauty of the poem on your own....

One of the pioneers.......2000-10-30

Novalis can be seen as one of the very first German poets who abandoned the classic German way of writing. "Hymns to the night" in particular is a collection of poems characterised by a mysterious dark lyricism and an accult atmosphere, blended in a way that cannot possibly provoke, annoy or "puzzle" ANY reader. On the contrary, Novalis' unique way of writing sounds like ones' beautiful ancient prayer to ones' ancient Gods

Hymns to the Night and Other Selected Writings

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Hymns to the Night and Other Selected Writings
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Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)

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Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)
Novalis
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0791469735

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The first English translation of Novalis's unfinished notes for a universal science, Das Allgemeine Brouillon.

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