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Moreover, men of worth quickly gathered about him, and this alliance of preëminent litterateurs was so active that the Merkur during a period of several years may be employed as a textbook of our literary history.
The address, which was subsequently published in the Merkur, begins with a vigorous elucidation of the difference between the bread-and-butter scholar and the philosophic thinker. The former is depicted in caustic terms as a narrow, selfish, timorous time-server.
Thus the glory that was Greece now came to him with the charm of a new discovery. The poem, 'The Gods of Greece, contributed to the Merkur in March, 1788, marks the beginning of his Hellenizing. A little later Homer fascinated him. A letter written in August runs thus: I now read almost nothing but Homer.
In prose there were several perfunctory reviews contributed to the Litteratur-Zeitung, and also an anecdote exhumed from an old chronicle and retold for the Merkur relating to a breakfast given to the Duke of Alva by the Countess of Schwarzburg in the year 1547.
[Footnote 37: Wieland’s own genuine appreciation of Sterne and understanding of his characteristics is indicated incidentally in a review of a Swedish book in the Teutscher Merkur, 1782, II, p.
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