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(Wolter's, p. 16) has a sign over the door
Wirtschaft zur Traube;
and is a distinctly
shabby place which in England would be
called an inn or pub.
3. There was nothing unique in G.'s
wearing "something like a toga" during
Mr. Steiner's visit. A fdend of mine was
present at a meeting of G.'s friends where
alL
wore togas. And does not G.'s admira–
tion of Rome go so far as the statement
(Porta Nigra)
that even a Roman cata–
mite is nobler than a modern man?
4.
I don't agree. The poem is from
Der Siebente Ring,
and in this book and
its successors, G. re-iterates that what
Jesus was to the last epoch, Maximin, or
the New Youth in general, will be to the
next. Compare Kronberger's own verses
(which I cited) with this very poem in
which G. addresses Jesus thus: "Komm
hei1ige knabe! hilf der welt die birst/
Das sie nicht elend falle!" etc.
5. I never hinted that the magazine
had a commercial purpose. Neither had
The Criterion.
But the dominant person–
ality of Mr. Eliot kept
The Criterion
going just as the dominant personality
of G. kept his magazine going; other
magazines have failed through editorial
squabbles. To establish that Klein was
G.'s co-editor and right hand man, one
need only consult Wolters (p. 42) or any
bibliography.
6. I admitted that most of my essay
was based on Wolters' book. The selec–
tion of names is his: see p. 65·ff.
7. One should, I am told, consult Gun·
dolf's widow if one wants to know how
far George behaved with high-handed
arrogance. My own evidence is Georg
Bondi's
Erinnerungen .an Stefan George
where Bondi states that G. treated Gun–
dol£ as a child: if Gundolf was late for
dinner, G. wouldn't bother to wait for him.
8. I don't know
exactly
how far George
lived off an allowance and how far off
his friends. I suggest that he was in–
debted to Karl Wolfskehl for much more
than occasional visits. George Bondi
states in his memoir that G. was his guest
for three months in the year over a long
period of time.
