Goethe, the Apostles, and Tennyson's supposed confessions. ('Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind'): An article from: Philological Quarterly

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From the supplier: Tennyson's early poem 'Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind' was a response to Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meister.' Tennyson's interest in Goethe was shared by other members of his literary set at Cambridge, a group known as the Apostles. The Apostles shared an experience of spiritual crisis in which the feeling of sinfulness, or being separated from God, was associated with intellectual pride. This conflict made it impossible to reach a resolution by following Goethe's model of the Bildungsroman because they did not admit the value of self-development. Tennyson's poem is representative of the group's preoccupations.

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Title: Goethe, the Apostles, and Tennyson's supposed confessions. ('Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind')
Author: Richard Cronin
Publication:Philological Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1993
Publisher: University of Iowa
Volume: v72 Issue: n3 Page: p337(20)

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