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Since I cannot attend, I really appreciate seeing the exhibit through your eyes. Omitting Kleist's name also exposes an anglophilic bias against 'foreign' literature. This may explain Romanticism's identity problem--for many anglophiles reduced to Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron. I'm sure you'll have more to say about Kleist, but I loved the sophisticated dialogue he overheard at the exhibit where the Monk was shown. The 14-year-old future King of Prussia who bought the painting also deserves some recognition for his artistic 'foresight'.

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