Goethe's Faust Volume 2; A Commentary
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... Hardly otherwise could it be; the Sphinx we noted as having two sides, sensuous and spiritual, or bestial and moral, but not in harmony. In old Egypt, too, we see often an ascetic purity alongside of beastly last. The Sphinx, therefore, has a moral element, and, like the rigid moralist the world over, is averse to Art, to that happy compromise and union of the two sides, whose beginning shows itself in the Sirens, and whose fullness is seen in the best works and men of the Greek world. Still, the warning of the Sphinx has its truth, nay, its prophetic outlook; the Greek peril lay in the loss of the happy balance between senses and spirit, and in the fall of the moral element into the bestial. The claws of the Sirens were hid in the branches at first, 'yet they were not destined to stay there, but to be thrust forth, cleaving Greek body and soul, as will be unfolded later in this poem. Hence Faust is to be sent away from them, by the good advice of the Sphinx, to Cheiron, the Greek teacher, whose instruction and whose shape give the true lesson for the attainment of Helen. Such is the introductory division of these mythologic shapes, the entrance hall of the gallery, as it were, representing in Art the rise of civilization, or man's historic attempts to create some image or visible symbol of his spiritual semblance in its transformation upwards. It shows Goethe, the great myth-maker, making not so much myths as paramyths, filling ancient mythical shapes with a new idea, cognate to the old, yet most modern. To the Orient the Griffon was a genuine myth whose basis is faith; to Goethe it is a paramyth, whose basis is thought. So it is with all these shapes; a new mythology of the modern poet lies herein, which takes up the old mythology, and makes it live afre...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154123050
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 108
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154123057
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 209 gr


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