Oddly enough I just bought that Walter Kaufman translation of Faust (with the German on the opposite page-which is nice, I don't read German well enough to fully get it but it's good to have to know how it sounds) last weekend. I'm interested for Austen next week-sorta like that painting of German lineages I'm always wanting to shove novelists into "Great Tradition" or "Romantic" and Austen is probably the platonic archetype of the former! Clever of you to follow Byron with her in that way. He's probably the romantic I know the least-his biography is about what I knew going into this, even Wordsworth I had more of a sense of, even if that was mostly Longfellow being partly named for him and Trilling's (unusually for him) close reading of the Immortality Ode.
Oddly enough I just bought that Walter Kaufman translation of Faust (with the German on the opposite page-which is nice, I don't read German well enough to fully get it but it's good to have to know how it sounds) last weekend. I'm interested for Austen next week-sorta like that painting of German lineages I'm always wanting to shove novelists into "Great Tradition" or "Romantic" and Austen is probably the platonic archetype of the former! Clever of you to follow Byron with her in that way. He's probably the romantic I know the least-his biography is about what I knew going into this, even Wordsworth I had more of a sense of, even if that was mostly Longfellow being partly named for him and Trilling's (unusually for him) close reading of the Immortality Ode.