Word: goethian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monet, Degas and Corot. But, for many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches of the view through his window by the German Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich, who died in 1840. Their misty vistas and eerily precise draftsmanship emphasize the mystic tie that binds Goethian romanticism to 20th century gothic surrealism...
...tragedy imply its death? Critic George Steiner answers with a provisional yes in a book that is less remarkable for its conclusions than for its sense, style, erudition and critical verve. At 32, Critic Steiner shapes his definitions and distinctions with mature authority, and shows a kind of Goethian aplomb in stating bald-faced but sometimes neglected truths, as when he writes, "Tragedies end badly...
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