SALZMANN 79
RELATIONS TO JUNG STILLING 83
COMES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HERDER 84
YOUNG'S _CONJECTURES ON ORIGINAL COMPOSITION_ 90
ITS INFLUENCE ON GOETHE'S GENIUS 93
FRIEDERIKE BRION 95
HIS RELATIONS TO HER 96
PARTING FROM HER 101
MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES 102
SELF-DISCIPLINE 103
POEMS ADDRESSED TO FRIEDERIKE 105
CHAPTER V
FRANKFORT--_GOeTZ VON BERLICHINGEN_
AUGUST, 1771--DECEMBER, 1771
GOETHE'S RETURN TO FRANKFORT 108
CREATIVE PRODUCTIVENESS OF THE PERIOD 108
POET OR ARTIST? 111
MENTAL CONFLICT 112
EPOCHS IN HIS LAST FRANKFORT YEARS 113
HIS SISTER CORNELIA 116
GROWING DISTASTE FOR FRANKFORT 117
DEPRESSION 119
WORSHIP OF SHAKESPEARE 120
_GOeTZ VON BERLICHINGEN_ 121
ITS INFLUENCE ON EUROPEAN LITERATURE 131
CHAPTER VI
INFLUENCE OF MERCK AND THE DARMSTADT CIRCLE
1772
FRIENDSHIP WITH MERCK 133
CHARACTER OF MERCK 133
HIS INFLUENCE ON GOETHE 135
THE DARMSTADT CIRCLE 136
ITS INFLUENCE ON GOETHE 136
CAROLINE FLACHSLAND AND GOETHE 137
POEMS OF GOETHE INSPIRED BY THE
DARMSTADT CIRCLE 138
_WANDERERS STURMLIED_ 139
_DER WANDERER_ 141
CHAPTER VII
WETZLAR AND CHARLOTTE BUFF
MAY--SEPTEMBER, 1772
DEPARTURE FROM WETZLAR 143
WETZLAR AND ITS SOCIETY 144
LOTTE BUFF 147
GOETHE'S RELATIONS TO HER 147
KESTNER, LOTTE'S BETROTHED 148
GOETHE, KESTNER, AND LOTTE 149
DEPARTURE FROM WETZLAR 150
KESTNER'S CHARACTERISATION OF GOETHE 151
CHAPTER VIII
AFTER WETZLAR
1772--1773
SUICIDE OF JERUSALEM 154
GOETHE VISITS THE FAMILY VON LA ROCHE 155
FRAU VON LA ROCHE 155
MAXIMILIANE VON LA ROCHE 157
UNREST 158
LETTERS TO KESTNER 159
ESTRANGEMENT FROM HIS FATHER 161
SOLITUDE 162
CHAPTER IX
SATIRICAL DRAMAS AND FRAGMENTS
POET OR ARTIST? 163
LITERARY ACTIVITY 164
_FRANKFURTER GELEHRTEN ANZEIGEN_ 165
_LETTER OF THE PASTOR_ 166
_TWO BIBLICAL QUESTIONS_ 167
RECASTS _GOeTZ VON BERLICHINGEN_ 167
SATIRICAL PLAYS 169
_PROMETHEUS_ 175
_MAHOMET_ 181
_ADLER UND TAUBE_ 183
_KUeNSTLERS ERDEWALLEN_ 184
CHAPTER X
_WERTHER_--_CLAVIGO_
1774
GOETHE'S NEED OF EXTERNAL STIMULUS 185
GOETHE AND THE BRENTANOS 186
ORIGIN OF _WERTHER_ 187
ENGLISH INFLUENCE ON _WERTHER_ 188
PUBLICATION OF _WERTHER_ 189
GOETHE AND WERTHER 190
SECOND PART OF _WERTHER_ 191
WERTHER AND GOETHE 193
INFLUENCE OF _WERTHER_ 196
THE KESTNERS AND _WERTHER_ 198
WERTHERISM 199
_CLAVIGO_ 200
DRAMATISED FROM BEAUMARCHAIS 200
ORIGIN OF _CLAVIGO_ 202
ITS PLOT 202
CONSTRUCTED ON CLASSICAL MODELS 205
_CLAVIGO_ AND GOETHE 206
CHAPTER XI
GOETHE AND SPINOZA--_DER EWIGE JUDE_
1773--1774
GOETHE'S DEBT TO SPINOZA 209
MISDATES SPINOZA'S INFLUENCE 210
_DER EWIGE JUDE_ 212
ORIGINAL PLAN OF IT 213
AS IT WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN 216
ITS DIVISIONS 216
ITS CHARACTERISTICS 216
UNPUBLISHED TILL AFTER GOETHE'S DEATH 218
CHAPTER XII
GOETHE IN SOCIETY
1774
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER 220
HIS CHARACTER 220
HIS INTEREST IN GOETHE 222
VISITS FRANKFORT 224
HIS INTERCOURSE WITH GOETHE 225
JOHANN BERNHARD BASEDOW 227
HIS CHARACTER AND CAREER 227
HIS VISIT TO FRANKFORT 228
GOETHE, LAVATER, AND BASEDOW AT EMS 228
THEIR VOYAGE DOWN THE RHINE 230
JUNG STILLING 231
SCENE AT ELBERFELDT 232
FRITZ JACOBI 233
GOETHE MAKES HIS ACQUAINTANCE 233
THEIR INTERCOURSE 234
JACOBI'S ESTIMATE OF GOETHE 237
KLOPSTOCK 238
GOETHE'S ADMIRATION OF HIM 238
THEIR MEETING IN FRANKFORT 239
_AN SCHWAGER KRONOS_ 240
BOIE AND WERTHES ON GOETHE 241
MAJOR VON KNEBEL AND GOETHE 242
GOETHE AND THE PRINCES OF WEIMAR 243
VON KNEBEL ON GOETHE 244
DEATH OF FRAeULEIN VON KLETTENBERG 245
CHAPTER XIII
LILI SCHOeNEMANN
1775
THE SCHOeNEMANN FAMILY 247
GOETHE'S INTRODUCTION TO LILI SCHOeNEMANN 248
HIS SUBSEQUENT MEMORY OF HER 249
LILI COMPARED WITH HIS PREVIOUS LOVES 250
GOETHE'S SONGS ADDRESSED TO HER 251
COUNTESS STOLBERG 253
GOETHE'S RELATIONS TO HER 253
_ERWIN UND ELMIRE_ 255
_STELLA_ 257
_CLAUDINE VON VILLA BELLA_ 263
A DISTRACTED LOVER 266
BETROTHED TO LILI 268
SHRINKS FROM MARRIAGE 269
COUNTS STOLBERG IN FRANKFORT 270
GOETHE STARTS WITH THEM FOR SWITZERLAND 271
VISITS HIS SISTER AT EMMENDINGEN 273
WITH LAVATER IN ZURICH 275
ACCOMPANIES PASSAVANT TO ST.
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