origin of the new great period of his poetical
work); others again have found it in the cir-
cumstances of the English stage of the time, and
in the various tastes of the "reserved" and
"pit" seats, as in the so-called "realistic
criticism of Rümelin.

The poetry, then, should certainly be inter-
preted historically, but in the proper sense, dis-
connected, that is to say from a history that
is foreign to it and with which its only connec-
tion is that prevailing between a man and what
he disregards, puts away from him and rejects,
because it either injures him or is of no use, or,
which comes to the same thing, because he has
already made sufficient use of it.

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