Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The German Storm and Stress
The only valuable work, which a storm and drounk produced, i suppose, was werter by gete. There is no situation in which werta can avoid suicide. If one man's love and another man's love come into collision, it is a hopeless and helpless business and must end badly. That is the moral of verta. And that is why young men up and down germany were said to have committed suicide in its name. None of these were men of good sense. This, then, is the atmosphere, so to speak, which developed in germany in the 17 sixties and 17 seventies. But there were two men who were
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