Word: eckermann
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...come out of necessity. His stories just barely escape the desperate world that they describe. There's no artifice--Carver wouldn't pass off a "Project for a Trip to China" (Sontag) as a story, or warp a story into the form of twisted aphorisms exchanged by Goethe and Eckermann (Barthelme)--there's only honest, hard work...
...maroon ribbed leather; Edmund Gosse's life of Coventry Patmore, also a first edition; Arthur Symons' London: A Book of Aspects, "privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and his friends" in Minneapolis (1908), in which the pages remain brittle as parchment; and a Bohn's Standard Library Edition of Eckermann's Conversations of Goethe, published...
...marvelous conversations with Eckermann, the elderly Goethe once remarked that the difference between Classicism and Romanticism was the difference between health and disease. He did not live to know the work of the arch Romantic Wagner, who could reflect both: if Tristan suggests illness, Die Meistersinger is a paragon of health. Last night, the latter's Prelude - which more successfully survives detachment from the whole than most of the other Wagner excerpts that turn up in the concert hall - came through with a good deal of its innate robustness and exuberance. In some places the strings were overpowered...
...eternal child in Goethe was an unfailing source of creativity. In the last half of his life Goethe completed five major dramas, four long novels, a 12,111-line narrative poem, a six-volume treatise on color, a ten-volume autobiography, a three-volume edition of his Conversations with Eckermann, and several thousand short er poems...
...poet-philosopher lay on his deathbed, and the idolaters whom he could no longer fight off set up on a pedestal the godlike image that has persisted ever since. The unhappy transubstantiation is described by Eckermann himself...