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Concerning high-water marks
in Eckermann's conversations with Goethe, the poet is described as once showing his admirer a letter from Zelter which was obviously witten in a fortunate hour.
Pen, paper, handwriting, were all favorable; so that for once, Goethe said, there was a true and complete expression of the man, and perhaps one never again to be obtained in like perfection.
The student of literature is constantly impressed with the existence of these single autographs, these high-water marks as it were, of individual genius.
It is in the perfection and precision of the instantaneous line, wrote Ruskin in his earlier days, that the claim of immortality is made.
Dr. Holmes somewhere counsels a young author to be wary of the fate that submerges so many famous works, and advises him to risk his all upon a small volume of poems, among which there may be one, conceived in some happy hour, that shall live.
After the few great reputations there is perhaps no better ancho
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A world-literature
in Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe that poet is represented as having said, in January, 1827, that the time for separate national literatures had gone by. National literature, he said, is now a rather unmeaning phrase (will jetzt nicht viel sagen); the epoch of world-literature is at hand (die Epoche der Welt-Literatur ist an der Zeit), and each one must do what he can to hasten its approach.
Then he points out that it will not be safe to select any one literature as affording a pattern or model (musterhaft); or that, if it is, this model must necessarily be the Greek.
All the rest, he thought, must be looked at historically, we appropriating from each the best that can be employed.
If this world-literature be really the ultimate aim, it is something to know that we are at least getting so far as to interchange freely our national models.
The current London literature is French in its forms and often in its frivolity; while the French crit
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