Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor J. W. WHITE...
Professor J. W. WHITE...
JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE...
PROFESSOR JOHN W. WHITE...
...readers, the writers of the Romantic school appealed to the imagination, the faith, and the superstition of the people. Instead of a onesided worship of Latin and Greek literature they proclaimed the universality of literature in all ages and among all nations. The great works of Schiller and Goethe, white lifting German literature to a higher plane, had tended to remove it further and further away from the understanding of the masses. The Romantic School endeavored to restore literature to the place it held in the Middle Ages when almost the whole intellectual activity of the nation centered...