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The Methods of Wilhelm Scherer as a Critic of Faust

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2021

Calvin Thomas
Calvin Thomas*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Extract

Among the most difficult questions with which the student of Faust has to deal are those which modern criticism has raised concerning the unity and coherency of the work and the continuity of the author's plan. That there are serious perplexities of this sort will be admitted, I presume, by all, except perhaps those for whom the interpretation of Faust is only an exercise of the speculative imagination. The long and peculiar genesis of the poem has left marks upon it.

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Research Article
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America , Volume 2 , Issue 2: Transactions 1886 , 1887 , pp. 92 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1887

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1 Note.—A few sentences of this paper have already appeared la a review of Scherer's Aufsätze über Goethe contributed by the writer to the Nation of June 16, 1867.