[The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown]@TWC D-Link bookThe Youth of Goethe CHAPTER I 34/34
Among the miscellaneous intellectual interests of his boyhood poetry evidently held the chief place, and, partly out of his own inspiration and partly at the suggestion of others, he diligently tried his hand at different forms of poetical composition.
Yet, if we may judge from his most notable boyish piece--_Poetische Gedanken ueber die Hoellenfahrt Jesu Christi_--there have been more "timely-happy spirits" than Goethe. Not, indeed, as we shall see, till his twentieth year, the age when, according to Kant, the lyric poet is in fullest possession of his genius, does his verse attain the distinctiveness of original creative power.[14] [Footnote 14: All Goethe's boyish productions that have been preserved will be found in _Der junge Goethe, Neue Ausgabe in sechs Baenden besorgt von Max Morris_, Leipzig, 1909.].
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