“Goethe, the greatest of modern critics, the greatest critic of all times.”--SAINTE-BEUVE. “The perusal of his Works would show that Criticism is also a science of which he is master; that if ever a man had studied Art in all its branches and bearings, from its origin in the depths of the creative spirit to its minutest finish on the canvas of the painter, on the lips of the poet, or under the finger of the musician, he was that man.”--CARLYLE.…
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