Goethe: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson

Author:Ritchie Robertson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780199689255
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

Greek art is typified by the limited, self-contained, visible, and tangible statue. Oriental art (like Romanticism) is close to nature, fluid, and boundless. But once the poet has transmuted his turbulent emotions (we remember the ‘heart on fire’ of ‘To the Moon’), the poem, however fluid its materials, will take shape as though by itself, in response to the poet’s invitation. Goethe’s German contains a discreet pun on schöpfen (‘to draw water’) and Schöpfer (‘creator’). Poetic creation, transcending the conflict between Classicism and Romanticism, is identified with the archetypal human action of drawing water. As in Goethe’s aesthetic theory, art, at its supreme point, becomes identical with nature.

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