This essay offers a overview of the reception of German Romanticism in 20th century French criticism: it underlines that, in a paradoxical manner, the reading offered by French criticism rests widely on an incomplete apprehension of the phenomenon of German Romanticism; but at the same time it serves as a true model allowing to go beyond the critics addressed to French Romanticism and to enroll Romanticism in a form of literary.
CLIL theme: 4053 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Théorie Littéraire