A Holistic and Logocentric Study Of Wandering As a Phenomenon In German and English Literature With Close Reference to the Age of Goethe and Romanticism

When confronting the phenomenon of poetic "Wandering" in the age of Goethe and Romanticism we soon find ourselves in the midst of controversy. Is the term 'wanderer' no more than an artifice, a conventional tag or blanket term? Why did Goethe and his Romantic contemporaries differ acrimoniously on the implications of the word? Even in English poetry Byron and William Blake presented a 'more wanderer than thou' attitude as when Blake referred to the Lakers as 'cold-earth wanderers.' Let us investigate this matter further.