AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
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Question
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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\?
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Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
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Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
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Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
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In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
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Explanation:
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