Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, 第 1 巻Boni & Liveright, Incorporated, 1923 |
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158 ページ - Ewigklar und spiegelrein und eben Fliesst das zephyrleichte Leben Im Olymp den Seligen dahin.
vii ページ - The central subject of this work is, then, the reaction in the first decades of the nineteenth century against the literature of the eighteenth, and the vanquishment of that reaction. This historic incident is of European interest, and can only be understood by a comparative study of European literature. Such a study I purpose attempting by simultaneously tracing the course of the most important movements in French, German, and English literature.
vii ページ - This historic incident," he says, " is of European interest, and can only be understood by a comparative study of European literature. Such a study I purpose attempting by simultaneously tracing the course of the most important movements in French, German, and English literature. The comparative view possesses the double advantage of bringing foreign literature so near to us that we can assimilate it and of removing our own until we are enabled to see it in its true perspective.
viii ページ - Regarded from the merely aesthetic point of view as a work of art, a book is a self-contained, self-existent whole, without any connection with the surrounding world. But looked at from the historical point of view, a book, even though it may be a perfect, complete work of art, is only a piece cut out of an endlessly continuous web.
x ページ - Sand, etc. The movement passes from France into Germany, and in that country also Liberal ideas are victorious. The writers forming the sixth and last group which I shall depict, Young Germany, are inspired by the ideas of the Greek war of liberation and the Revolution of July, and, like the French authors, see in Byron's great shade the leader of the Liberal movement.
ix ページ - Germany, the reaction is on the increase; it is more vigorous and holds itself more aloof from the contemporary struggle for progress and liberty. The third group, consisting of such men as Joseph de Maistre, Lamennais in his strictly orthodox period, Lamartine and Victor Hugo when they (after the restoration of the monarchy) were still mainstays of the Legitimist and clerical party, represents the militant, triumphant reaction. Byron and his English contemporaries form the fourth group. It is this...
viii ページ - The scientific view of literature," says Brandes, " provides us with a telescope of which the one end magnifies, and the other diminishes; it must be so focussed as to remedy the illusions of unassisted eyesight. The different nations have hitherto held themselves so distinct, as far as literature is concerned, that each has only to a very limited extent been able to benefit by the productions of the rest.
v ページ - The stormy year of 1848, a historical turning point, and hence a break, is the limit to which I purpose following the process of development. The period between the beginning and the middle of the century presents...
17 ページ - ... civilization." Brandes goes on to note more fully the four characteristic features : (i) Love as a natural, not artificial or conventional mannerism, (ii) Inequality in station of the hero and heroine, (iii) The moral conviction of the sanctity of marriage, (iv) Nature in its literal significance. "For the first time, out of England, we have the genuine feeling for nature in fiction, superseding love-making in drawing-rooms and gardens.
65 ページ - ... environment, did not die before He finished His work, if the world is not an opus posthumum ? He had the grandest and most beautiful intentions, and all the means for carrying them out. He had begun to use these means, the scaffolding for the building was erected, but in the midst of His work He died. Everything is constructed with an aim which has ceased to exist ; we, in particular, feel ourselves destined for something of which we can form no conception. We are like clocks without dials or...