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The article deals with the manifestations of sentimentalism and triviality and with the problem of the preromanticism in the German literature of the late Enlightenment. Traditionally, such problems are analyzed in the literary studies apart from “high” literature. It is important to comprehend the nature of preromanticism as a distinct and remarkable phenomenon of the eighteenth-century literature (and not as an early stage of romanticism), the existence of which during several decades proved its vitality and uniqueness. Triviality, in its turn, existed as a part of the culture in G.E. Lessing’s time, that is, to a great extent before Goethe. It should be marked that triviality had been manifested in literature long before the Enlightenment. Traditional and repeated themes and plots may be the markers of triviality as a cultural phenomenon.

The Pre-Romantic, the Sentimental, and the Trivial in the Late 18th Century German Literature