I have now carried Schiller’s On the Naive and Sentimental in Literature around for two weeks now, thinking that no doubt soon I would finish it–say, if my subway car was stuck somewhere overnight. That did not happen, I did not delve much further into his distinction between naive and sentimental poets, and now it is due back at the library. And that is that.
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| Death of Chatterton, Henry Wallis, 1856 |
What an unsentimental an unceremonious end to your naive foray … 😉
I remember this painting for being on the cover of the edition of the Chatterton which I once read.
Ihave to say I never read works by Chatetrton himself. or Schille. Shameful, isn’t it?
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Very un-sentimental.:)
Yes, Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd had that cover–great novel.