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This man places a laurel plant on the table after declaring, “the classical I call healthy, and the romantic sickly.” This man praises Rubens’s use of “double light” in the painting Return from the Fields in a book in which he quips that “architecture is frozen music” (10[1])and advances a notion of the “Daemonic” that inspired Harold Bloom. (-5[1])In another entry of that book, this author compares a Chinese novel to one of his own works and remarks that, since national literature no longer means much, “the epoch of world literature is at hand.” (10[1])Nine years of this author’s table talk is recorded in a book by his (-5[1])secretary (10[3])Eckermann. (10[1]-5[2])As an old (10[1])man, this author proposed to the (10[1])17-year-old (10[1])Ulrike (10[3])von (10[1])Levetzow (10[1])(“LEV-uh-tsoff”) and called out for (10[1])“more light! more light!” on his deathbed. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what author’s late works include “Marienbad (“Marien-baht”) Elegy” and Faust Part II? (10[2])■END■ (10[5])

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