Faust, Second Part of, embarrassment in expressing a faithful opinion of, 541; comparison of the impressions pro- duced by the first and second parts, 541; character of the second part, 543; causes of its failure, 544; analysis,
Faustus, Marlowe's, analysis of, 469 Fellow-Sinners, the, Goethe's drama of, 49; represented in the private theatre at Weimar, 234
Fischerin, die, Goethe's operetta of,
Fisherman, the, Goethe's ballad, 228 Fire-brigade instituted at Weimar at the instance of Goethe, 274 Frankfort Journal, extract from one of Goethe's articles in, 128 Frankfort-on-the-Main, the native place of Goethe, 11; its two-fold character, 12; its occupation by the French, 25; their departure, 28; Goethe's desire to escape from, 64; his renewed studies at, 127; visits of Karl August, 188, 275; Goethe's visit to, in 1814, 524; his ovation at, ib.
Frankfurter Gelehrten Anzeigen, the organ of the Storm and Stress party, 103 Frederick the Great, literary tendencies
of, opposed to Goethe, 246; his opi- nion of Götz von Berlichingen, ib.; his indirect influence on literature, 247
Frederika. See Brion.
French Revolution, doctrines of, 368; Goethe's attitude toward, 369, 385; opposed by Wieland and Schiller, 385 Friday evenings held at Weimar, 366
GALEN, indicated the existence of the intermaxillary bone in man, 342 Gall, his visit to Jena, 486; Goethe's ap- preciation of his theory, ib. Gartenhaus, the, 226; given to Goethe by Karl August, ib.
Geheime Legations Rath, Goethe elected to the post of, 214
Genius, the hereditary transmission of, 2; the "genial period," 212 Geology, progress of Goethe's specula- tions in, 287
German, culture of Goethe, 79; manners in the eighteenth century, 198; laxity of morals, 211; based on sentimentalism ib.; compared with French morals, ib.; German substitute for fresh air and ex- ercise, 228; German wit, 244; German language, Goethe plagued with pecu- liarities of pronunciation, 427; German drama, 428
Germany, its condition in the eighteenth
century, 196; no nation, 200, 513; Goethe's opinion concerning, 514. See Weimar
Gerock, Anna Antoinette, Goethe's love for, 135; lottery marriage with Goethe, 161; induces him to write Clavigo, ib.
Gervinus, his criticism on Wilhelm Meis- ter, 394
Geschwister, die, Goethe's, play of, 235 Gleim, story of his first meeting with Goethe, 217
Göchhausen, Mdlle., her character, 204; prank of Karl August and Goethe, ib. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, character and extent of his claim to greatness, 2; here- ditarytransmission of qualities, ib.; his ancestry, 3; silence concerning his grandfather the tailor, ib.; genealogi- cal table of the Goethe and Textor families, 5, 6; character of his father and mother, 7; his subjection of emo- tions to reason, 9; feeling for Italy, 13; moderate elevation of his social status, ib.; his precocious babyhood, ib.; his love for his sister Cornelia, 14; youthful escapade, ib.; his love of story-telling, 15; his grandmother and grandfather Textor, ib.; his early compositions in Latin and German, 16; character of his precocity, 17; his school life, 18, 19; early religious doubts awakened by the Lisbon earthquake, 22; early symbolical representation of the soul's aspirations to the Deity, 23: the seven years' war, ib.; invention of little stories, 24; occupation of Frank- furt by the French, 25; visits to the theatre, ib.; acquires French, 26; mock duel with Derones, ib.; his early play, 27; entertains a profound contempt for the unities, ib.; resumption of study on the departure of the French, 28; writes a polyglot romance, ib.; masters Hebrew, ib.; dictates a biblical poem on Joseph and his brethren, 29; mixes with all classes in Frankfurt, 30; influence on him of Fräulein von Klettenberg, 31; early love for Gretchen, ib.; his disap- pointment, 32; fascination of his nature, 33; characteristics of his childhood, 34; his manysidedness, ib. ; his seriousness, formality, and rationality, 35; rational character of his enthusiasm, ib.; his impatient susceptibility, 36; commen- ces his collegiate life at Leipsic, 37; wearies of logic and jurisprudence, ib.; his appearance in society, ib.; acquaintance with Frau Böhme, 39; conversation at Hofrath Ludwig's, ib. ; tires of society, 40; literary society at the table d'hôte of Herr Schönkopf, 42; falls in love with Anna Katharina Schönkopf, ib.; description of Goethe
in Horn's letters to Moors, 43, 44; composition of Die Laune des Verlieb- ten, 46; works of Goethe, an embodi- ment of his experiences, 47; pranks and extravagances with Behrisch, 49; his experiences of Leipsic society, ib.; composition of the Fellow-sinners, ib.; objective character of Goethe's genius, 52, 54; concrete tendency in his works, ib.; compared with Shakspeare, 53; his moral toleration, 54; neglects his col- legiate studies, 55; his love songs, 56; joins Oeser's drawing class, ib. ; trips to Dresden, 57, 388; learns engraving, 57; serious illness, 58; state of religious doubt, ib.; returns to Frankfurt, 59; his reception, ib.; letters to Käthchen Schönkopf, ib. ; unpleasant relations with his father, 63; studies in alchemy, ib.; religion, 64, 519; proceeds to Stras- burg University, 65; description of his person, ib.; general progress, 66; his disgust at the Système de la Nature, 67; his exasperation at the pictures ex- hibited to Marie Antoinette, ib.; mys- tical metaphysical studies, 69; early ten- dency to nature-worship, ib.; notes on Bayle's criticism of Giordano Bruno, 70; comment on a chapter in Fabricius, ib.; improved deportment, 72; increased circle of friends, ib.; acquaintance with Stilling and Lerse, ib.; conquers his irri- tability and sensitiveness, 74; two love poems, ib.; dancing lessons at Strasburg, 75; story of Emilia and Lucinda, the dancing master's daughters, ib.; his German culture, 79; acquaintance with Herder, 80; Herder's opinion of him, ib.; strange introduction to the Brion family, 82; falls in love with Frederika, 83; his letter to her, 85; obtains his doctor's degree, 87; his oration on Shakspeare, 90; his appreciation of Gothic archi- tecture, 94; parting with Frederika, 95; his reception by his father, 97; his reluctance to appear in print, ib.; his anguish at having renounced Frede- rika, 98; his studies, 102; his father's anxiety about him, 104; composition of Götz von Berlichingen, 105; Kest- ner's description of him, 114; his acquaintance with Götter, 116; his connection with the Göttingen school, 117; falls in love with Charlotte Buff, 120; visit to Höpfner, 122; intro- duces Merck to Lotte, ib.; melan- choly departure from Wetzlar, 123; his farewell note to Lottchen, 125; interrogates Fate if he should be- come an artist, 126; visits Frau von Laroche and flirts with her daughter, 127; studies at Frankfurt, ib. ; rewrites Götz, 128; his reasons for rewriting it, ib.; Merck's advice to him, 129; publi-
cation of Götz, ib.; its success, ib.; a magnificent order from a bookseller, 131; letters to Kestner and Charlotte, 133, 134, 135, 137; coquetting with suicide, 134; state of his mind, ib.; falls in love with Antoinette Gerock, 135; meditates a drama on Mahomet, 137; dangerous intimacy with Maxi- miliane Brentano, 139; publication of Götter, Helden und Wieland, 140; first acquaintance with Karl August, 141; composition of Werther, 145; distinc- tion between Werther and Goethe, 150; prodigious effect of its publication, 152, 153; Kestner's letter to him, 155; Goethe obtains the forgiveness of Kest- ner and Charlotte, 156; his monument at Wetzlar, 159; his lottery marriage, 160; composition of Clavigo, ib.; ac- quaintance with Klopstock and Lava- ter, 164; his opinion of Lavater, 165; studies Spinoza, 166, 170; religious opinions, 166, 167; acquaintance with Basedow, 167; journey with Basedow to the Rhine, 168; acquaintance with Jacobi, 169; Goethe's personality, ib.; contrasted with Herder, 170; the Mo- ravian doctrines, 172; idea of an epic on the Wandering Jew, 173; fragment of Prometheus, 175; affection for Lili, 180; Erwin und Elmire, 183; objections to his marriage with Lili, 184; compo- sition of Stella, 185; Canning's bur- lesque of Stella, 186; tour in Switzer- land, 187; separation from Lili, ib.; accepts Karl August's invitation to Weimar, 188; compared with Karl August, 207; their intimacy, 208, 212, 213; Goethe's disinterestedness to- ward Herder, 209; his costume at Weimar, 211; his love intrigues, ib.; his wild pranks at Weimar, 212; elected to the post of Geheime Legations Rath, 214; breach with Klopstock, 216; Gleim's anecdote of Goethe, 217; charge of having sacrificed his ge- nius to the court, ib; falls in love with Frau von Stein, 222; his letters to her, 224, 239; his Gartenhaus, 226; his fondness for fresh air and water, 227; Ballad of the Fisherman, 228; appear- ance in the character of a water-sprite, 229; useful influence at Weimar, 230; theatricals, 231, 232; his acting, 235; general amusements and occupation, 236; love and ambition, 239; takes charge of a Swiss peasant-boy, 239; letters to him from sentimental youths, 240; grows ashamed of Werther, ib.; composition of Triumph der Empfinds- amkeit, ib.; journey to the Harz in disguise, ib.; interview with Plessing, 241; his realism, 242; suicide of Frau- lein von Lassberg, ib.; increased hatred
of Wertherism, 243; manifold employ- ments, 245; the famine at Apolda, ib.; his journey to Berlin, 246; his contempt for the Prussian court, ib. ; excites the ill-will of the Berlin literati, ib.; his activity after returning to Weimar, 248; story of his protégé Kraft, ib.; mental crystallisation, 258; dawning of a new life, 259; composition of the Iphi- genia in prose, ib.; review of the Iphi- genia, 262; his official duties, 274; in- stitutes a fire-brigade at Weimar, ib.; made Geheimrath, ib.; journey with Karl August to Frankfurt and Stras- burg, 275; interviews with Frederika and Lili, 275, 276; visits his sister's grave, 276; passionate study of science, 278, 290, 330; changes in his mode of life, 279; is ennobled, ib.; increased affection for Frau von Stein, 280; oc- casional discords with Karl August, ib.; poem of Ilmenau, 284; journey in the Harz with Fritz von Stein, 285; his efforts as controller of finance, ib.; prepares the Planet Dance, 286; oration on the reopening of the Ilmenau mines, ib.; discovers the intermaxillary bone, ib.; studies in natural history, 287; salary increased by Karl August, 288; Goethe's charities, ib.; changes in Weimar society, ib.; his various stu- dies, 290; secret departure for Italy, 291; his residence in Italy, 292; his narrow escape from shipwreck, 297; falls in love with a young Milanese, 300; returns to Weimar, ib.; review of Eg- mont, 301; of Tasso, 307; his letter to Karl August, 309; relieved from his official duties, 310; his first acquain- tance with Schiller, 312; Goethe's change in reference to the Sturm und Drang movement, ib.; recommends Schiller to a professorship at Jena, 315; his connexion with Christiane Vulpius, 316; Roman Elegies, 319; Goethe's history of his botanical stu- dies, 329; character of Goethe as a man of science, 332; his theory of colours, 333; his optical studies, ib.; his ignorance of mathematics and physical science, 339; his aptitude for dealing with physical science, 340; de- spises the pedantry of professional men, 343; his merit, that of a "thinker in science," 354; second visit to Italy, 365; visits the camp in Silesia, ib.; campaign in France, 366; Goethe's diary of the campaign, 370; descrip- tion of his house in the Frauenplan, 376; the Bürgergeneral, 378; the Aufgeregten, ib.; Reinecke Fuchs, ib.; history and character of his friendship with Schiller, 380; Goethe contrasted with Shakspeare, 384; review of Wil-
helm Meister, 393; Goethe's influence on Schiller, 402; review of HermAZI und Dorothea, 408; history of Goethe's management of the Weimar theatre, 419; his mode of life at Weimar, 435; last years of Schiller, ib.; review of Faust,446; review of the Lyrical Poems, 480; battle of Jena, 486; his outburst against Napoleon, 488; marriage with Christiane Vulpius, 493; nature of his acquaintance with Bettina Brentano, 496; interview with Napoleon, 499; noticed in the Moniteur, ib.; receives the cross of the Legion of Honour, 500; Goethe's supposed servility, 502; his passion for Minna Herzlieb, 504; review of the Wahlverwandtschaften, 505; acquaintance with Beethoven, 512; indifference to politics, but earnestness in art, 513; not true that he "looked on life as an artist," 515; character of his religion, 517; his morals, 521; cha- racter of his old age, ib.; his oriental studies, 522; the West-östliche Divan, ib.; ovation at Frankfurt, 524; publi cation of the Kunst und Alterthum, 525; growing tendency towards mysti- cism, 426; visit of Lottchen to Weimar, ib.; death of Christiane, 526; anecdote of his enlargement of the Jena library, 527; quarrel with the Landtag, 528; charged with stealing an ingot of gold, 530; story of the hundred engravings borrowed from Knebel, ib.; his varied occupations, 531; review of Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre, 531; spread of his fame, 534; vitality of his old age, 535; his passion for Fräulein von Lewezow, 536; Madame Szymanowska "madly in love" with him, 536; his jubilee at Weimar, 536; protection of his copyright in Germany, 538; re- ceives the order of the Grand Cross of Bavaria, ib.; death of Karl August, ib.; finishes the Wanderjahre, 539; re- view of the second part of Faust, 541; closing scenes, 550; his eighty-first year, ib.; indifference to the revolution of 1830 in comparison with the scien- tific contest between Cuvier and St. Hilaire, 550; death of his only son, 551; tribute from fifteen Englishmen, 552; Thackeray's letter describing Goethe and Weimar, 553; activity of his old age, ib.; signs of decay, 557; his death, 558.
Goethe family, genealogical table of, 5 Goethe, Johann Caspar, father of the poet, 3, 4; his character, 7; his me- thod of education, 16; dissatisfied with his son's progress at Leipsic, 59; his harshness to his daughter Cornelia, 63; his pride in his son, but distress at his manners, 96, 97; doubts as to his son's
acquaintance with the princes of Wei- | mar, 142; his death, 279 Goethe, Katharina Elizabeth, mother of the poet, 4; her character, 7; her stories to her children, 15; her reception of Goethe on his return from Leipsic, 59; her description of her son skating, 139; Goethe's letter to her from Weimar, 219; her missing letter, 374; her death, 511 Goethe, Cornelia, sister of the poet, his love for her, 14; her father's harshness, 63; her marriage, 137; her objections to Goethe's marriage with Lili, 184, 187; her death, 239; Goethe visits her grave,
Goethe, Frederick, 3
Goethe, Hans Christian, 3
Goethe, Jacob, early death of, 25
Goethe, Ottilie von. See Pogwisch, Ot- tilie von
Gold, ingot of, Goethe charged with steal- ing one, 530
Goldsmith's Deserted Village, translated by Goethe and Götter, 116
Gotha, Duke of, places at Goethe's dis- posal a magnificent laboratory, 332 Gothic architecture, Goethe's apprecia- tion of, 94
Gott und die Bajadere, 482
Götter, 114; Goethe's acquaintance with him, 116
Gottfried of the Iron Hand, history of, 106 Götter, Helden und Wieland, 140; re- viewed by Wieland, ib.; circumstances under which it was written, ib. Göttling, his discovery respecting phos- phorus, 388
Götz von Berlichingen, three versions of, 105; Goethe's own account of its com- position, ib.; character of Gottfried of the Iron Hand, 106; the characters in Götz von Berlichingen, 107; Götz a dramatic chronicle not a drama, ib.; singularly un-Shakspearian in construc- tion, 108; in the presentation of cha- racter, ib.; in the language, 109; the first-born of the Romantic School, ib.; its injurious influence on dramatic art, ib.; its originality denied by Hegel, 110; its scenes, 110, 111; rewritten, 128; Goethe's reasons for rewriting it, ib.; Merck's advice, 129; its publica- tion, ib.; its effect upon the public, 130; the representative of the Sturm und Drang movement, 131; Frederick the Great's opinion of Götz von Berlichin- gen, 246; Sir Walter Scott's translation, 407
Goué, instituted the Round Table at Wetzlar, 113; his rumoured suicide, 148
Greek art compared with Christian art, 154; Goethe's enthusiasm for, 525
Greek drama, traditional errors concern- ing, 262; necessary calmness of evolu- tion mistaken for calmness of life, 263 Gretchen, story of Goethe's early love for, 31
Gross Kophta, der, 366 Grünn, Karl, 132
Guizot, his epigram on our age, 145
HAMILTON, Lady, captivates Goethe, 296 Hamlet, Wilhelm Meister's criticism on, 400; twofold cause of its popularity: intellectual sublimity and dramatic variety, 448; compared with Faust, ib.
Hardenberg, a fellow student of Goethe's,
Harz, Goethe's journeys in, 240, 285 Harzreise in Winter, poem of, 240 Hegel, his criticism of Götz, 110; his remark on heroes and valets, 248; a convert to Goethe's erroneous theory of refraction, 339; on Hermann und Dorothea, 418
Heine, anecdote of his interview with Goethe, 437
Heinse, his description of Goethe, 169 Helena, Carlyle's review of, 547; its cha- racter, 548
Herculaneum, Goethe's visit to, 296 Herder, his acquaintance with Goethe, 80; his opinion of Goethe, ib.; his in- fluence on him, 81; his reception of Gotz von Berlichingen, 130; contrasted with Goethe, 170; drawn to Weimar by Goethe, 209; Goethe's disinterested- ness towards him, ib. ; called to Weimar as court chaplain, 230; his opinion of Goethe quoted by Schiller, 256; closer intimacy with Goethe, 278; his jealousy of Schiller, 440; his death, 441 Hereditary transmission of qualities, 2 Hermann und Dorothea, foundation of Goethe's poem, 408; analysis, 409; character of the poem, 415; objective delineation of characters and scenes, ib.; pure human existence represented in the subject matter, 416; clearness and significance of the style, 417; Ger- man criticisms on, 418
Herzlieb, Minna, Goethe's passion for, 504; his sonnets to her, ib.; heroine of Die Wahlverwandtschaften, ib. Hooker, Dr., his appreciation of Linnæus,
Höpfner, Goethe's visit to, 122 Horen, die, publication of, 386; a failure,
Horn, his description of Goethe to Moors, 43, 45; his description of the character of Goethe's genius, 52
Humboldts, their acquaintance with Goethe, 389; letter to Goethe relating the death of Karl August, 538 Huxley, his criticism on the vertebral theory of the skull, 360
IDEAL, or subjective, intellects contrasted with real, or, objective intellects, 51 Ideas constructed out of the depth of moral consciousness, 393; the camel story, ib.; the Idea of Faust, 449 Ilmenau, Goethe's poem of, 284; his oration on the reopening of the mines, 286; his last visit to, 557 Imbaumgarten, Peter, Goethe's protégé, 239, 252
Imperial court of justice at Wetzlar,
Infusoria, Goethe's studies of, 290 Intellect, distinction between the sub- jective and objective, 51 Intermaxillary
bone, discovered by Goethe, its biographical significance, 287; a bone of contention among ana- tomists, 342; its existence indicated by Galen, but generally supposed to be absent from man, ib.; recognised by Loder, Spix, and Sommering, 343; the comparative method which led to the discovery, 344; the claim of Vicq d'Azyr to the discovery of, 345. See Metamorphoses, Morphology Interpretation, symbolical, extensive ap- plication of, 442
Iphigenia represented at Weimar, 235;
first composed in prose, 260; com- parison of the prose with the poetic version, 261; Schlegel's error in call- ing it an echo of Greek song, 262; not a Greek but a German play, 264; Schiller's criticism, ib.; not a drama but a dramatic poem, 265; analysis of, ib.; Miss Swanwick's translation of, 266
Irony, principle of, 403
Italiänische Reise, character of the book, 292
Italian pictures, Goethe's appreciation of, 57
Italy, Goethe's love for, 13; his first visit under an assumed name, 292; Goethe's delight in the present and not in the past, 293; effect of Goethe's residence in, 298; his second visit to, 365
JACOBI, Frau, Goethe's letter to, 139 Jacobi, his acquaintance with Goethe, 169; discussion with Lessing, 175; his tone and opinions disliked by Goethe, 289; his animadversions on Wilhelm
Meister, answered by Schiller, 399; his visit to Goethe at Weimar, 485 Jean Paul, his impression of Goethe, 437; of Schiller, ib
Jena, the home of science, 195: students, their appearance at the Weimar theatre, 422 Jena, battle of, 486 Jena library, anecdote of Goethe's en- largement of it, 527
Jerusalem, his philosophical essays, edited by Lessing, 121; his unhappy passion, 122; his suicide, 134; abridg ment of Kestner's account of, 146 Jery und Bätely, 276
Jubilee, Goethe's celebration of, at Wei- mar, 536
KARL AUGUST, his first acquaintance with Goethe, 142; invites Goethe to Wei- mar, 187; visits Frankfurt, 188; Goethe accepts his invitation to Wei- mar, ib.; his trick on Mdlle. Gōch- hausen, 204; his character, 206; com- pared with Goethe, 207; Goethe's description of him, ib.; his close inti- macy with Goethe, 208, 212, 213; elects Goethe to the post of Geheime Legations Rath, 214; silences the pro- test of the Court, ib.; presents Goethe with the Gartenhaus, 226; his theatrical troupe and its wanderings, 231; his journey with Goethe to the Harz, 240; makes Goethe Geheimrath, 274; his journey with Goethe to Frankfurt and Strasburg, 275; Goethe's occasional discords with him, 280; his letter to Merck, 283; releases Goethe from his more onerous official duties, 310; com- mands a Prussian regiment during the campaign in France, 367; dismisses Goethe from the management of the Weimar stage, 433; Napoleon's in- temperate rage against him, 488; Goethe's outburst, ib.; Napoleon's friendly reception of him at Erfurt, 499; his visits to Goethe, 531; his death, 538
Karsten and his performing dogs, 432 Käthchen. See Schönkopf Kaufmann, Angelica, Goethe's acquaint- ance with her, 294, 297 Kestner, Goethe's correspondence with, 112; his description of Goethe at Wetzlar, 114; betrothed to Charlotte Buff, 119; his account of Charlotte and Goethe, 119, 120; extracts from his diary, 123; Goethe's letters to, 133, 134, 135, 136, 141, 156, 157; his mar- riage with Charlotte, 136; his account of Jerusalem's suicide, 146; his indig- nation at Werther, 155; his letter to
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