After-Jena : Rootless Tree : 9781919631394 : 1919631399 : 28 Jun 2023 : 'After-Jena: A Symphonic Poem' is in four parts and is named after the small university town in Germany that, at the end of the C18th and early C19th, saw the emergence of early Romanticism and Idealism in a revolutionary ethos that included the arts, sciences and politics. A central figure to this was Caroline Bohmer-Schlegel-Schelling, an extraordinary woman, who was also a key figure in the translation of Shakespeare into German. Gathered around her were an astonishing array of talent, including Fichte, Schiller, Goethe, William and Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Schelling and Holderlin. In that milieu the notion of non-duality became central in a view of the world as essentially dynamic and emergent, and of the essential oneness of poetry and philosophy as well as of poetry and science, as understood by Goethe and evident in the recasting of his treatise on the 'Metamorphosis of Plants' as a poem. Humans were