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In the highest circles knowledge on this sub- ject was in most cases little better than superficial; worse still, such knowledge was so steeped in condescension and cant as to be of little help in diffusing any genuine admiration for the greatest writers, Lessing, Richter, Schiller and Goethe. A gap in the dead wall of English insularity was made by a foreign book, Madame de Stael's Germany, of which Carlyle said that it "must be regarded as the precursor, if not parent, of whatever acquaintanc...e with German literature exists among us."^^ But the greatest force of all was undoubtedly Carlyle himself, whose essays on German subjects, for this service alone, ought to entitle him to a secure position in English ^' Quarterly, Vol. X, 390. For a brief analysis of the positions of the earlier periodicals — the Monthly Review and the Anti-Jacobin — see Perry, German Influence in English Literature, Atlantic Monthly for August, 1877. 98 literary criticism of the nineteenth century. He it was who possessed the insight, knowledge and necessary courage to fight against a many-voiced and persistent opposition.
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