1. Lucretius in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Etching by W. Unger after G. O. May (1779). Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe._Etching_by_W._Unger_after_G._O._Wellcome_V0002292.jpg John Ruskin, who had read Lucretius’s De rerum natura in his student days as a set book at Oxford, commented in later years: ‘I have ever since held it the most hopeless sign of a man’s mind being made of flint-shingle if he liked Lucretius.
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Dokumenttyp: | bookPart |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
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Open Book Publishers
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Schlagwörter: | culture / Europe / language / Germany / Enlightenment / literature / Age of Goethe / eighteenth-century / environmentalism / German thought / natural history / nineteenth-century / LIT004010 / LIT004070 / Literature German Dutch Scandinavian / DSB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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