ABSTRACT
. . . He was not only the greatest literary stylist of his time. He was also the only living representative of the European tradition of the artist who carries on with his creative work unaffected by the storm which breaks around him in the world outside his study. His spirit is one with Goethe standing like a cliff above the sea of the French invasion of Germany; of Beethoven continuing to write his music all through the bombardment of Vienna, even when he had to take refuge in a cellar.
