1 “... the two kinds of poetry. And love is indeed a problem for these three poets, since it involves the self...”

2 “... that the people want their history handed to them by the poet, not the historian. The infatuation with history...”

3 “... of the eighteenth century he enjoyed a considerable reputation as a German poet of the French neo-classical...”

4 “... and poets like Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, 'Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche...”

5 “... of human life, the immensity of possible human accomplishment - a theme so well exploited by the poets...”