H. C. Robinson, Reminiscences (Norman 1, 51)

One day, at Knebel’s house, Herder said to Goethe, “Do you know that we have in the German language an epic poem with as much poetry in it as the ‘Odyssey,’ and more philosophy?” When Reineke Fuchs was named, Goethe said he had been deterred from looking into it, by its being published by Gottsched.