...strive we can never here obtain. . . . Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire; the former has its foundation...the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope. . . . The feeling of the moderns is, upon the whole, more intense, their...

...melancholy can be the key-note of its songs? Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire: the former has its foundation...betwixt recollection and hope. Let me not be understood as affirming that everything flows in one unvarying strain of wailing and complaint, and that the voice...

...earthly enjoyments fleeting and illusory: "Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire: the former has its foundation...while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope. . . . The feeling of the moderns is, upon the whole, more inward, their fancy more incorporeal, and...

...longing. As August Wilhelm Schlegel noted, "The poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire: the former has its foundation...present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope."11 Herder's attraction to Greek myths; Goethe's and Wilhelm Heinse's travels to southern climes;...

...The poetry of the ancients,' as is well remarked by a German critic, ' is the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire ; the former has its foundation...the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope.' Without an antecedent literature, no charges of plagiarism could be...