All 3 Uses of
Goethe
in
Of Human Bondage
- It was the period in Germany of Goethe's highest fame.†
Chpt 23-24 *Goethe = German polymath and writer (1749-1832)
- But one mark of a writer's greatness is that different minds can find in him different inspirations; and Professor Erlin, who hated the Prussians, gave his enthusiastic admiration to Goethe because his works, Olympian and sedate, offered the only refuge for a sane mind against the onslaughts of the present generation.†
Chpt 23-24
- He had spent a winter in Florence and a winter in Rome, and now was passing his second summer abroad in Germany so that he might read Goethe in the original.†
Chpt 25-26
Definition:
German polymath (one who excels in many fields) best remembered for his writing -- especially the play Faust (1749-1832)