Note 631 — INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Reading edition
:1] The poet alluded to is Goethe. I know this from Lord Tennyson himself, although he could not identify the passage; and when I submitted to him a small book of mine on his marvellous poem, he wrote, "It is Goethe's creed," on this very passage.—Rev. Dr. Getty (vicar of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire).