CHAPTER III.

GOETHE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

Hamann 352

Lichtenberg 354

Herder 355

His drawbacks of tediousness 355

Pedagogy 355

And _meteorosophia_ 356

But great merits 356

The _Fragmente_ 356

The _Kritische Walder_ 357

The _Ursachen des Gesunknen Geschmacks_ 357

The _Ideen_, &c. 358

Age-, Country-, and Race-, Criticism 358

Specimens and Remarks 359

Wieland 360

Goethe 361

The _Hamlet_ criticism, &c. 361

The _Sprüche in Prosa_ 362

The Sterne passages 363

Reviews and Notices 365

The _Conversations_ 366

Some more general things: Goethe on Scott and Byron 372

On the historic and comparative estimate of literature 372

Summing up: the merits of Goethe’s criticism 373

Its drawbacks: too much of his age 374

Too much a utilitarian of Culture 375

Unduly neglectful of literature as literature 376

Schiller 377

His Æsthetic Discourses 378

The Bürger review 378

The _Xenien_ 380

The Correspondence with Goethe 381

The _Naïve and Sentimental Poetry_ 383

Others: Bürger 384

Richter 385

The _Vorschule der Æsthetik_ 385

The so-called “Romantic School” 386

Novalis 387

The _Heinrich_ 387

The earlier _Fragments_ 388

The later 389

His critical magic 390

Tieck 390

The Schlegels 391

Their general position and drift 392

The _Characteristiken_ 393

A. W.: the _Kritische Schriften_ of 1828 394

On Voss 394

On Bürger 395

The _Urtheile_, &c. 396

The _Vorlesungen über Dramatische Kunst und Literatur_ 396

Their initial and other merit 397

The Schlegelian position 398

The _Vorlesungen über Schöne Literatur und Kunst_ 399

Illustrated still more by Friedrich 401

Uhland 402

Schubarth 403

Solger 404

Periodicals, Histories, &c. 404