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

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter : Leben Fibels

'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and Tieck?) he is the best man in Germany: but his extravagance and barbarism will render the task of selecting from him one of some difficulty.'

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

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter : Herbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitschriften

'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and Tieck?) he is the best man in Germany: but his extravagance and barbarism will render the task of selecting from him one of some difficulty.'

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

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter : Die Flegeljahre

'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and Tieck?) he is the best man in Germany: but his extravagance and barbarism will render the task of selecting from him one of some difficulty.'

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

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter : unknown

'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richter and Jacobi, I ride, and hoe cabbages, and like Basil Montague, am "a lover of all quiet things"'.

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

Click check box to select all entries on this page: