"In the evening Don Juan. Comparing Byron with Goethe and Schiller, R says: "Everything in the lords work is too violent, his work gives off a dry glow, for heat he certainly has. Our poets, just as clearly conscious of the hollowness and wickedness of the world, seek their salvation in other ways. And Goethe handles satire much more powerfully in his Mephisto. Byron is no good at drama, he can describe, but he cannot depict"
Cosima Wagner: Diaries
Complete. Translated by Bayard Taylor and illustrated by Harry Clarke. in what are surely the most extraordinary illustrations from Faust ever put to paper.
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