Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels

- Andrea Wulf takes us to The University of Jena in Germany in the 1790's. Jena was a small town then, but under the influence of a circle of brilliant young men and women its university became the seedbed of an intellectual revolution that quickly spread throughout the Western world.  

- Wulf has given us in great detail the extraordinary story of these philosophers, poets, scientists and art historians, who became lifelong friends and lovers, and influenced thinkers and writers throughout Europe, Britain, and the US over generations. They invented Romanticism. 

- I was thoroughly engrossed by this marvellous story told in very clear and readable prose, and can do no better than post the dust cover copy which describes the book so well: