The German Language of the 17 Sixties - Wit the Greatest Love

Each of these little german villages, each of the 300 little principalities, grew up in its own idiosyncratic, peculiar way. And there was much poetry in this too. By defending every little tittle, every little jot of german law, whether it was just or unjust, he simply an anything which our ancestors loved. This is the kind of atmosphere in the 17 sixties which begins to get going. Now, hergot was brought up in this atmosphere. And i think wit, the man who genuinely started from the proposition that art in which he was interested, but particular language, on particular poetry, was in some sense a voice speaking. Not the capacity for generalizing