A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.77

v3.c35.s8.77

¹ About Meghadūta in the Noten und Abhandlungen zum Divan (Jubiläumsausgabe, Vol. 5, p. 360) Goethe says: "The first acquaintance with such a work always makes an epoch in our life". And in the article "Indische und Chinesische Dichtung" (Vol. 37, p. 210) he speaks in praise of the poem that it "describes purely human relationship". Cf. also P. Th. Hoffmann, Der indische und der deutsche Geist, p. 28 ff., 46.