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GOETHE'S WORKS. no. i.
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We proceed , in discharge of our promise , to give an account , & catalogue raisonnee of the works of this great poet , by which wellknown expression our readers will not understand a critical or criticising catalogue . We wish to supply a deficiency , not so much in our literature ,
as in contemporary history . For half a century the name of Goethe has been more loudly celebrated on the continent than any other within our memory , except Voltaire . In Germany , with the exception of a few young men hot from the universities in praise of Schiller , and a still smaller number of elderly gentlemen in favour of Wieland , he is universally proclaimed to be their
great man par excellence , whose long life comprehends the golden age of their literature , and whose numerous writings form its substance . If this be so , the students of that literature must direct to them their chief attention . But among so great a mass and such variety of works there must be a diversity of character , if not inequality of merit;—which then of his numerous volumes ought
the student to take in hand ? There are some , we have heard , which , like strong liquors , should be withheld from youth , though they may be the cordial and the medicine of advanced years . There are others which are so very national in their character , that it requires some preparation to relish them . Before they are administered , a previous alterative is requisite . There is nothing
that so much interferes with the enjoyment of any kind of literature as the forming a wrong expectation . Now it is with the very unpretending object of letting the reader know what sort of work he may expect in the greater part of Goethe ' s writings that our catalogue will be drawn up , and by no means with the
presumptuous intention of deciding on their worth . We hope to be allowed , as a relief from the drudgery of this semi-mechanical occupation , the indulgence now and then of a digression ; and , should we take occasion to add a personal anecdote or two , as they will not be taken from books , or at second-hand , our readers will probably excuse it , and besides we shall gladly avail ourselves
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MONTHLY REPOSITORY . m NEW SERIES , No . LXVL
Goethe's Works. No. I.
GOETHE'S WORKS . no . i .
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JUNE , 1832 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/1/
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