CARLYLE'S APPRENTICESHIP: HIS EARLY GERMAN CRITICISM AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOETHE (1822-1832).
In: Modern Language Review, Jg. 71 (1976), Heft 1, S. 1-18
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The article reports that in 1839 British writer Thomas Carlyle's friend and critic John Sterling wrote an article in the "London and Westminster Review" on Carlyle's early periodical essays. Carlyle was grateful for what he called the first generous human recognition of his merit in introducing German literature, and in particular German poet and dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to the English public. Indeed, Sterling was eloquent in his praise. He wrote, "Grasshoppers had before chirped for and against the rumored foreign singer and these are often pleasant verdant animals. But now it was no grasshopper; the creature is of a different race. Bos locutus est. It was the roaring of a bull, which the mountains needs must hear and reply to. This view became commonplace among English and German critics in the nineteenth century, and has persisted well into the 20th century. It still remains to be shown that this is a falsification of Carlyle's achievement as a critic of German literature, and that the "mistake", perpetuated by Goethe in Germany, stemmed from Carlyle himself.
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CARLYLE'S APPRENTICESHIP: HIS EARLY GERMAN CRITICISM AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOETHE (1822-1832).
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Ashton, Rosemary D. |
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Zeitschrift: | Modern Language Review, Jg. 71 (1976), Heft 1, S. 1-18 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1976 |
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ISSN: | 0026-7937 (print) |
DOI: | 10.2307/3724374 |
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