Note 20 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

This is perhaps less true of Goethe than it is of either Milton or Shakespeare. It is possible that Hegel thought more highly of the second part of "Faust" as art than do the majority of modern critics. But the truth is there, if subject to a good deal of qualification in respect to certain aspects of poetry. As Meredith says:

"Verily now is our season of seed, Now in our Autumn."

And Meredith was not one to do less than justice to the superb Dream of imaginative youth.