Goethe And The Conduct Of Life (1886) - Softcover

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Edel sel der Henscb, hllfreichund gut, It is now some thirty years since Thomas De Quincey expressed the opinion that Goethe had been much overrated and that during the next generation or two his reputation would decline. Verily, as M. Renan lately observed, the vocation of prophet has become in our time peculiarly difficult. Since De Quincey printed his splenetic essay the prestige of Goethe has steadily increased until he has become, it is safe to say, the most imposing and authoritative personage in the history of modern literature. Hermann Grimm calls him simply the greatest poet of all times and of all peoples. Matthew A rnold, while gently deriding Grimm sstatement of the matter as over-patriotic, is himself on record to the effect that he, Goethe, in the depth and richness of his criticism of life, is by far our greatest modern man. fE dmond Scherer, a Frenchman who is certainly not chargeable with any prepossessions in favor of things trans-R henane, finds that Goethe, although he has notS hakespeare spower, is a genius more vast, more universal, thanS hakespeare. Finally, Oscar Browning, writing for the new Encyclopaedia Britannica, uses this language: Posterity must decide his exact precedence in that small and chosen comE nc. Brit. 8th ed. article Ooethe. fA French Oritie onO oethe In the volume Mixed Essays. In this essay the above-quoted opinion oCO rlmm as well as that of Soberer are considered at some length.
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