"Commentatorial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that the whole literary energy of a nation which is commentatorial or nothing, should be flung on such a subject as the Nibelungenlied;[107] the amount of work expended on the subject by Germans during the century in which the poem has been known is enormous, and might ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury |
