"In social terms, we could say he was confident there was in him an independent Goethe living like his father on his independent capital, but this bourgeois self was not identifiable with any of its manifestations as courtier and salaried official of an absolute ruler -- or as spokesman of the sentimental and highly philosophical culture which took place, among the subervient German middle classes, of the realistic, novel-centered literature then growing in shopkeeping England."
-- Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803, Nicolas Boyle, 2000, p. 310.
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