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” and advances a notion of the “Daemonic” that inspired Harold Bloom. 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.” Nine years of this author’s table talk is recorded in a book by his secretary Eckermann. As an old man, this author proposed to the 17-year-old Ulrike von Levetzow (“LEV-uh-tsoff”) and called out for “more light! more light!” on his deathbed. For 10 points, what author’s late works include “Marienbad (“Marien-baht”) Elegy” and Faust Part II? ■END■
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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