"But Hamann taught Herder English, using as a textbook Shakespeare's Hamlet (!), which Herder learned so thoroughly that Caroline Herder reports he could quote most of it by heart. When, in 1764 Hamann left Königsberg on a trip to southern Germany he wrote back to his father to greet Herder and to tell him that as soon as he had finished with Milton's Hell the two of them would venture into Dante's Purgatory."
-- Herder: His Life and Thought, Robert T. Clark, 1969, p. 46.
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