Modern Review April 1932

The lyric of the romantic epoch is unthinkable without the sweet charm the flow of natural feelings —the inner unaffected melodious language of the heart in Friederike songs of the Strisiburg period and in the poems about Frau von Stein in Weimar. [...] They are devoid of all skirmishes and languishing longings after the 'beloved and do not deal with her as with a far-away ideal but ►nrrate the pleasures and the comfort of the possessor which arise from undisturbed enjoyment and from the well-springs of a satisfied sensenjoyment and which fills the parties with the forceful energy of life. [...] The sufferings the voices and the sensitive longings of the youthful lyrics are now supplanted by a limitation of circumstances and by the demonstration and perception of a visible event. [...] The hook “Sideika" -the love lyric—formed the centre of the -Divans.- It is the charneterstie of the later lyrics that they do not appear with the directness of the personal. [...] The age and stage to which the newly discovered culture of the Indus Valley belonged is celled the Chalcolitbic Ages--„that age in which arms and utensils of stone continue to be used side by aide with those of copper and bronze.” The material culture of the Cluilmlithic Age of the Indus Valley comspoods in its general features with the Chalcolithie culture' of Western Asia and Egypt.