The book includes three works dedicated to contemporary writers - Gelderlin, Kleist and Heine. All of them are associated with the romantic movement that replaced Weimar classicism. On the living tree of German poetry of the late XVIII - early XIX centuries, flowers alternated with fruits, in the bowels of the old and fading a new one arose, inheriting the traditions of the previous one. The eternal struggle of old and new at this time in Germany was complex and dialectical.