Note 678 — Chapter III · GOETHE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
Reading edition
In the Bibliothek der Weltlitteratur of Cotta (Stuttgart, n. d.), which I use. Besides the texts more particularly noted above, Dichtung und Wahrheit is perhaps the chief place to be examined: but nothing can be quite neglected. Readers confined to English may profitably consult Criticism, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe (London, n. d.), ed. by W. B. Rönnfeldt, who thinks Goethe “probably the greatest literary and art critic whom the world has seen.”