Further Reading
It would be better to see some commentaries that date from later then 1920. Idolatry of everything Goethe wrote might be rather more profitably modified.
- W. von Humboldt, Æsthetische Versuche: Hermann und Dorothea (1799)
- V. Hehn, Ueber Goethes Hermann und Dorothea (1893)
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