The far-sighted British writer who urged his contemporaries in 1834 to close their ‘Byron’ and open…
Thomas Carlyle urged readers to turn from Byron to Goethe. His advocacy of German literature made Goethe an important model of intellectual and moral seriousness in his…
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The far-sighted British writer who urged his contemporaries in 1834 to close their ‘Byron’ and open their ‘Goethe’:
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Thomas Carlyle urged readers to turn from Byron to Goethe. His advocacy of German literature made Goethe an important model of intellectual and moral seriousness in his criticism.
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Kerala SET (LBS Centre)