...phases of which he considers emblematic of the development of European consciousness, Goethe's novel "is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...thoughtful men of a certain age were languishing" (Works, 26:217). Moreover, Carlyle considers Werther "among the signals of a great change in modern...

...modern Europe in the decades following the French Revolution (1789):" Werther is but the cry ofthat dim, rooted pain, under which all thoughtful men of a certain age were languishing" (Carlyle, Works,Vol. 26, 217). Other changes in identity would follow: Eliot returned to England and...

...Carlyle, the most staunchly pro-Goethe Victorian writer before GH Lewes, Werther had given voice to »the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which all...thoughtful men of a certain age were languishing« (Carlyle 1899, vol. 26, 215), affirming Goethe's cultural authority as an expression of his capacity...

...gave it a local habitation and a name; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werther is but the cry of that dim rooted pain under which all...to it. True, it prescribes no remedy ; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise, to which other years and a higher culture were required ; but...

...gave it a local habitation and a name ; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...languishing: it paints the misery, it passionately utters the roinplaint ; and heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it. True, it prescribes...