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And he has embodied his strong protest against it in his “Dichtung und Wahrheit”: “How hollow and empty it seemed to us in this melancholy, atheistical twilight.... Matter, we learnt, has moved from all eternity, and by means of this movement to right and left and in all directions, it has been able, unaided, to call forth all the infinite phenomena of existence.”
Amalie carried the coffee and the crisp brown rolls to one of the small tables on the terrace, and herself stood, after she had served him, and looked over the edge of the hill. When he had finished eating, he opened a volume of DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT, which he carried in his pocket, and began to read.
[Footnote 4: “Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung,” V, pp. 184
He certainly did not always endeavour to profit as well as to delight: but the double power was, from this time forward, shared by him with his brother in the higher and older Dichtung. Godwin had written novel-juvenilia of which few say anything.
I am firmly convinced that that time will come and that I shall be, if not the one who evokes it in the North, at any rate one who will contribute greatly towards it." One of the first books I had read as a student was Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit, and this career had extraordinarily impressed me.
[Footnote 28: “Laurence Sterne und C. M. Wieland, von Karl August Behmer, Forschungen zur neueren Litteraturgeschichte IX. München, 1899. Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung fremder Einflüsse auf Wieland’s Dichtung.” To this reference has been made. There is also another briefer study of this connection: a
Such a nature as Shelley's, through its far greater susceptibility than is common even when with artistic temperaments, was debarred in moments of high-strung emotion from observing the ordinary distinctions of subject and object; and this peculiar quality must never be forgotten when we seek to estimate the proper proportions of Dichtung and Wahreit in certain episodes of his biography.
Stevenson's essays are charming; and Wordsworth's poem is beautiful, in streaks it is as fine as anything that he ever wrote: but both of these works belong to literature because they are packed full of omissions, which Stevenson himself called 'a kind of negative exaggeration. No, my dear boy, old Goethe found the right title for a book of reminiscences when he wrote 'Wahrheit und Dichtung. Truth and poetry, that is what it is bound to be.
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