W.D. Clarke’s Reviews > Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder > Status Update
W.D. Clarke
is on page 135 of 541
Vico is a rich, suggestive and original, but scarcely a clear or coherent, thinker. One is tempted once again to quote Bizet’s celebrated comment on Berlioz that he ‘had genius without any talent’.
— Jan 07, 2026 07:53AM
13 likes · Like flag
W.D.’s Previous Updates
W.D. Clarke
is on page 248 of 541
Style is not adornment, but content. (Cont'd)
— 4 hours, 4 min ago
Herder had derived from Hamann his notion that words and ideas are one. Men do not think, as it were, in thoughts and ideas and then look for words in which to ‘clothe’ them, as one looks for a glove to fit a fully formed hand.
