the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : private letter

'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a ntoe of delivery. I opened it, and found two pretty stitched little books, and a letter from - Goethe! I copy it from the fractur [Gothic script] hand it was written in, and send it for your edification. The patriarchal style of it pleases me much.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre

'With my own share of the Packet I feel not less contented. Especially glad was I to find my old favourite the Wanderjahre so considerably enlarged: the new portions of the Book it was my very first business to read; and I can already discover no little matter for reflexion in that wonderful Makarie, and the many other extensions, and new tendencies, which that most beautiful of all Fragments has hereby acquired.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

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