Devrient, his description of the Jena students at the Weimar theatre, ii. 251 his observations on the Weimar school, 252.
Dialogue's, Goethe's early compositions, i. 23.
Dictation, Goethe's favorite mode of composition, ii. 452. Dabereiner, story of Goethe's keeping his bar of platinum, ii. 408. Dodd's Beauties of Shakespeare, its influence in Germany, i. 78. Dogs, performing, refused admittance on the Weimar stage, ii. 265. Domesticity, its antagonism to genius, i. 148.
Drama, Greek, traditional errors concerning, ii. 9; necessary calm- ness of evolution mistaken for calmness of life, 10.
Dramatists, unacted, error of, ii. 242.
Dresden, Goethe's visit to, i. 81.
ECKERMANN, his account of the extension of Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre, ii. 418.
Egmont, a universal favorite, but not a masterpiece, ii. 66; a novel in dialogue, not a drama, 67; a character of Egmont a type of humanity, 67; analysis of the play, 68; criticisms on, 77.
Egoism of genius, i. 149.
Eichhorn's Introduction to the Old Testament studied by Goethe, ii.
Einsiedel, character of, i. 344.
Elective Affinities, the, ii, 377.
Elgin marbles, effect of their discovery on Goethe, ii. 407.
Emilia and Lucinda, story of, i. 110.
Engravings, by Goethe, i. 82.
Enthusiasm, Goethe's, character of, i. 47.
Erfurt, congress of, ii. 369.
Erl-king, the, ii. 350.
Erwin und Elmire, composition of, i. 307.
Esenbeck, Nees von, recognizes Goethe's discovery respecting the Metamorphoses of Plants, ii. 119.
Euripides, parallel between his Iphigenia and that of Goethe, ii. 14.
FABRICIUS, Goethe's comment on a chapter in, i. 103.
Faith, general want of, in the eighteenth century, i. 199; Goethe's idea of, in connection with knowledge, 284.
Faust, analysis of Maler Müller's play of, ii. 339. Faust, gradual development and progress of, ii. 282; the problem of our intellectual existence and picture of our social existence, 284; resemblance between Faust and Hamlet, 285; popularity and prodigality of Faust, 286; the Idea, 287; analysis of the first part, 287; the theatre prologue, 287; the prologue in heaven, 290; necessity for the two prologues, 294; first scene of Faust in his study, 295; the scene before the gate, 300; Faust's study, 302; Auerbach's cellar, 306; the witches' kitchen, 306; meeting with Margaret, 306; wood and cavern, 308; the Walpurgis nacht, 311; causes of the early disap- pointment, and after-fascination of the readers of Faust, 317; Coleridge's criticisms compared with Goethe's own observations, 343.
Faust, second part of, embarrassment in expressing a faithful opinion of it, ii. 429; comparison of the impressions produced by the first and second parts, 430; character of the second part, 431; causes of its failure, 433; analysis and criticisms, 435.
Faustus, Marlowe's, analysis of, ii. 324.
Fellow Sinners, the, Goethe's drama of, i. 70. Fischerin, die, Goethe's operetta of, i. 386. Fisherman, the, Goethe's poem of, i. 379.
Fire-brigade instituted at Weimar at the instigation of Goethe, ii. 27. Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, the native place of Goethe, i. 17; its two- fold character, 19; its occupation by the French, 36; their de- parture, 40; rough manners of Frankfurt, 55; Goethe's ovation, ii. 405.
Frankfurter Gelehrten Anzeigen, i. 151.
Frederic the Great, literary tendencies of, opposed to Goethe, i. 407; his indirect influence on literature, 408.
Frederika. See Brion.
French verses of Goethe, i. 99.
Friday evenings, ii. 166.
GALEN, indicated the existence of the intermaxillary bone in man, ii. 138.
Gall, his visit to Jena, ii. 356; Goethe's appreciation of his theory, 356.
Gartenhaus, the, i. 375; given to Goethe by Karl August, 376. Genius, hereditary transmission of, discussed, i. 5; its antagonism to domesticity, 147; egoism of 149.
German architecture, Goethe's tractate on, i. 135. German culture of Goethe, i. 114.
German Literature, survey of, i. 239; idealism its dominant and persistent characteristic, 240; struggle between idealism and realism, 248; the Nibelungen Lied, 250; effect of the cru- sades, 251; of the reformation, 254; two-fold protest of the eighteenth century, 256; Klopstock, the representative of German idealism, 256; Wieland, the representative of German realism, 259; Lessing, the real revolutionary leader of the German mind, 260; Herder the lineal descendant of Lessing, 264; Goethe, the realist, and Schiller, the idealist, 266.
German morals, laxity of, in the 18th century, i. 352; based on sentimentalism, 352.
Germany no nation, ii. 390; Goethe's opinion concerning, 391; its social condition in the 18th century. See Weimar. Gervinus, his criticism on Wilhelm Meister, ii. 207. Geschwister, die, Goethe's play of, i. 388.
Gleim, story of his first meeting with Goethe, i. 361.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, character and extent of his claim to great- ness, i. 3; intellect his primary faculty, and justice his primary virtue, 4; hereditary transmission of qualities discussed, 5; his ancestry, 7; silence concerning his grandfather the tailor, 9; genealogical tables of the Goethe and Texter families, 10, 11; character of his father and mother, 12; his subjection of emotions
to reason, 14; his birth, 17; feeling for Italy, 17; moderate ele- vation of his social status, 20; his precocious babyhood, 20; his love for his sister Cornelia, 21; his love of story telling, 21; his grandmother and grandfather Textor, 22; his early compositions in Latin and German, 23; character of his precocity, 26; his school life, 27; character not formed by circumstances, 29; early religious doubts awakened by the Lisbon earthquake, 31; early symbolical representation of the soul's aspirations to the Deity, 33; the Seven Years' war, 34; invention of little stories, 35; occupa- tion of Frankfurt by the French, 36; visits to the theatre, 37; acquires French, 37; mock duel with Derones, 38; his early play, 39; entertains a profound contempt for the unities, 39; departure of the French and resumption of study, 40; writes a polyglott romance, 40; masters Hebrew, 41; dictates a biblical poem on Joseph and his brethren, 41; influence of Fräulein von Kletten- berg, 42; early love for Gretchen, 42; his disappointment, 44; fascination of his nature, 45; characteristics of his childhood, 46; his manysidedness, 47; his seriousness, formality and rationality, 47; rational character of his enthusiasm, 47; his impatient sus- ceptibility, 49; commences his collegiate life at Leipsic, 53; wearies of logic and jurisprudence, 54; his appearance in society, 55; acquaintance with Frau Böhme, 56; literary society at the table d'hôte of Herr Schönkopf, 59; falls in love with Anna Katha- rina Schönkopf, 60; description of Goethe in Horn's letters to Moors, 61; composition of Die Laune des Verliebten, 66; works of Goethe an embodiment of his experiences, 67; pranks and extrav= agancies with Behrisch, 68; composition of The Fellow Sinners, 75; objective character of Goethe's genius, 74; concrete tendency in his works, 75; compared with Shakespeare, 76; his moral toleration, 77; neglects his collegiate studies, 78; his love songs, 79; joins Oeser's drawing class, 80; trip to Dresden, 81; learns engraving, 81; serious illness, 82; state of religious doubt, 83; returns to Frankfurt, 84; his reception, 84; letters to Käthchen Schönkopf, 85; unpleasant relations with his father, 90; studies in alchemy, 91; religion, 91; passing affection for Charity Meix- ner, 92; proceeds to Strasburg university, 93; description of his person, 93; general progress, 95; his disgust at the Système de la Nature, 96; his exasperation at the pictures exhibited to Marie Antoinette, 97; his French verses, 99; mystical metaphysical studies. 100; early tendency towards nature worship, 100; notes on Bayle's criticism, 102; comment on a chapter in Fabricius, 103; improved demeanor, 104; increased circle of friends, 105; ac- quaintance with Stilling and Lerse, 105; conquers his irritability and sensitiveness, 107; two love poems, 108; dancing lessons at Strasburg, 109; story of Emilia and Lucinda, the dancing master's daughters, 109; his German culture, 114; acquaintance with Herder, 115; Herder's opinion of him, 116; strange introduction to the Brion family, 118; falls in love with Frederika, 119; obtains his doctor's degree, 126; his oration on Shakespeare, 130; his tractate on German architecture, 135; parting with Frederika, 136; his reception by his father, 141; his reluctance to appear in
print, 143; his anguish at having renounced Frederika, 144; composition of Götz von Berlichingen, 153; his meagre account of Wetzlar in his Autobiography, 169; Kestner's description of him, 172; his acquaintance with Gotter, 175; his connection with the Göttingen school, 176; falls in love with Charlotte Buff, 179; visit to Höpfner, 185; melancholy departure from Wetzlar, 186; interrogates fate whether he should become an artist, 190; studies at Frankfurt, 192; rewrites Götz, 193; its publication, 195; let- ters to Kestner and Charlotte, 201; coquetting with suicide, 201; state of his mind 202; meditates a drama on Mahomet, 206; dan- gerous intimacy with Maximiliane, 209; publication of Götter, Helden und Wieland, 211; first acquaintance with Karl August, 213; composition of Werther, 217; distinction between Werther and Goethe, 224; prodigious effect of the publication, 228; Goethe obtains the forgiveness of Kestner and Charlotte, 235; lottery marriage with Anna Sybilla Münch, 269; composition of Clavi- go, 270; acquaintance with Klopstock and Lavater, 279; religious opinions, 282; acquaintance with Basedow, 285; with Jacobi, 287; his personality, 288; studies Spinoza, 288; the Moravian doctrines, 291; idea of an epic on the Wandering Jew, 292; frag- ment of Prometheus, 296; affection for Lili, 296; Erwin und Elmire, 307; composition of Stella, 309; tour in Switzerland, 311; separation from Lili, 314; accepts Karl August's invitation to Weimar, 314; creates a sensation, 351; close intimacy with Karl August, 355; elected to the post of Geheime Legations Rath, 357; breach with Klopstock, 361; Gleim's anecdote of Goethe, 362; falls in love with the Frau von Stein, 369; his Gartenhaus, 375; fondness for fresh air and water, 378; ballad of the Fisher- man, 379; appearance in the character of a water-sprite, 380; useful influence at Weimar, 381; theatricals, 382; his acting, 388; general amusements and occupation, 389; love and ambition, 392; letters from sentimental youths, 394; composition of Triumph der Empfindsamkeit, 394; journey to the Harz in disguise, 395; interview with Plessing, 396; suicide of Fräulein von Lassberg, 401; increased hate of Wertherism, 402; manifold employments, 405; contempt for the Prussian court, 406; story of his protégé, Kraft, 410; mental crystallization, ii. 3; boundless productiveness of fancy combined with an indestructible love of nature, 4; earnest- ness of manhood, 5; composition of the Iphigenia in prose, 6; re- view of the Iphigenia, 9; official duties, 27; made Geheimrath, 28; journey with Karl August to Frankfurt and Strasburg, 28; inter- views with Frederika and Lili, 29; changes in his mode of life, 31; feels authorship to be his true mission, 37; poem of Ilmenau, 40; journey in the Harz with Fritz von Stein, 42; prepares the planet dance, 43; oration on the re-opening of the Ilmenau mines, 43; discovers the intermaxillary bone in man, 44; studies in natural history, 45; charities, 46; changes in Weimar society, 47; secret departure for Italy, 51; his residence in Italy, 52; return to Weimar, 77; relieved from his official duties, 79; first acquaintance with Schiller, 81; connection with Christiane Vul- pius, 86; review of Tasso, 101; character of Goethe as a man of
science, 115; second visit to Italy, 165; campaign in France, 167; description of his house in the Frauenplan, 182; the Burger- general, 185; the Aufgeregten, 185; Reinecke Fuchs, 186; history and character of his friendship with Schiller, 189; review of Wil- helm Meister, 205; review of Hermann und Dorothea, 228; his- tory of his management of the Weimar theatre, 244; his mode of life at Weimar, 268; last years of Schiller, 271; review of Faust, 282; review of the Lyrical Poems, 346; battle of Jena, 355; outburst against Napoleon, 359; marriage with Christiane, 360; nature of his acquaintance with Bettina, 365; interview with Napoleon, 370; supposed servility, 375; passion for Minna Herz- lieb, 377; review of the Wahlverwandtschaften, 378; acquaintance with Beethoven, 387; indifference to politics, but earnestness in art, 389; not true that he looked on life as an artist,' 395; character of his religion, 395; his morals, 400; character of his old age, 402; his oriental studies, 403; the West-östliche Divan, 404; ovation at Frankfurt, 407; publication of the Kunst und Alterthum, 407; growing tendency towards mysticism, 408; visit of Werther's Charlotte to Weimar, 408; death of Christiane, 409; anecdote of his enlargement of the Jena library, 410; quarrel with the Landtag, 412; charged with stealing an ingot of gold, 414; story of the hundred engravings borrowed from Knebel, 415; re- view of Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre, 417; spread of his fame, 421; vitality of his old age, 422; passion for Fräulein von Lewe- zow, 422; celebration of his jubilee at Weimar, 423; protection of his copyright throughout Germany, 425; death of Karl August, 426; review of the second part of Faust, 429; his eighty-first year, 442; indifference to the revolution of 1830 in comparison with the scientific contest between Cuvier and St. Hilaire, 443; death of his only son, 445; tribute from fifteen Englishmen, 446; interview with Thackeray, 450; activity in his old age, 452; signs of decay, 453; his death, 456.
Goethe family, genealogical table of, i. 10.
Goethe, Johann Caspar, father of the poet, i. 8; his character, 12; dissatisfied with his son's progress at Leipsic, 84; his harshness to Cornelia, 90; his pride in his son, but distress at his manners, 141, 143; his death, ii. 33.
Goethe, Katharina Elizabeth, mother of Goethe, i. 9; her character, 12; her stories to her children, 21; her death, ii. 386.
Goethe, Cornelia, sister of the poet, his love for her, i. 21; her father's harshness, 90; her marriage, 206; her death, 393.
Goethe, Frederick, i. 8.
Goethe, Hans Christian, i. 8.
Goethe, Jacob, early death of, i. 36.
Goethe, Ottilie von, her marriage, ii. 403; death of her husband, ii. 439.
Gold, ingot of, report that Goethe had stolen one, ii. 414.
Goldsmith's Deserted Village, translated by Goethe and Gotter, i. 176.
Göchhausen, Mlle., her character, i. 343.
Gott und die Bajadere, ii. 350.
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