The Life of Raphael

ISBN: 9781330760277 出版年：2016 页码：338 Herman Friedrich Grimm Forgotten Books

Dear Friend， - I regard it as my special good fortune that your pen enables me once more to enter into communication with your countrymen. It is as if I were an American speaking to Americans. Your translations are so spirited that I sometimes feel as if an author were at work in your Fatherland whose views are precisely the same as mine， and with whom I am strangely in unison. From my youth I have felt an interest and sympathy in America， although I have never been there. I can recall from the days of my far-off boyhood， the undefined， romantic feeling with which men strained their gaze across the ocean's wide expanse from the fettered， pre-Bismarck Germany， to the opposite shores where Freedom dwelt.These sentiments， however， are by no means the ground of my present attachment to your country.