In German literature, a period from 1786, the start of Goethe's Italian journey, to c.1830; also known as the Goethezeit, because of its domination by the mature works of Goethe and also Schiller. The period also includes the careers of such diverse writers as Herder, the influential novelist Jean Paul, the dramatist Kleist, and the poet Hölderlin - these last three showing strong Romantic tendencies and prefiguring later literary trends. Nevertheless, its high point was the writing of Goethe and Schiller (chiefly drama and poetry, although Goethe' Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre also proved highly influential), who abandoned the excessive emotionalism and egocentrism of ‘Sturm und Drang’ to espouse classical ideals of restraint and harmony. They pursued the ideal of humanity, in which the individual achieved personal fulfilment in the context of his environment. Humanity aspired to the true, good, and beautiful, and could perfect itself through its own endeavours; the demands of morality and society were to be respected, and culture and nature venerated as mutually reconcilable positive forces. The style of these writers, restrained in form, favoured the typical and symbolic. Kant, the humanist Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Hellenist Winckelmann were intellectual influences; the court of Weimar provided a focal point.