Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: “When Dr. Westlake quoted the "Paradiso," "Don Quixote," "Wilhelm Meister," and the Koran”
Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense, the first of its kind, called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society”
The Tragic Muse by Henry James: “the occasion reminded him of pages in _Wilhelm Meister_. He himself could pass for Wilhelm, and if Mrs. Rooth had little resemblance to Mignon, Miriam was remarkably like Philina.”
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton: “Lecky's European Morals, Carlyle's translation of Wilhelm Meister, Seneca, Epictetus, a German grammar, a pocket Bacon.”
The World Set Free by H. G. Wells: “It is indeed an allusive title, carrying the world back to the _Wilhelm Meister_ of Goethe, a century and a half earlier.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Lucretius, Lucian, Montaigne, Erasmus, Quevedo, Marlowe, the Discourse on Method, Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Coleridge, Ruskin, Proust and Valéry”
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather: “Then he read "Tom Jones" and "Wilhelm Meister" and raced on until he came to Montaigne and a complete translation of Ovid.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “the genre of the German Bildungsroman, of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister.”
Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle: “like the Lothario in Wilhelm Meister, that your 'America is here or nowhere'?”