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.
Gotter, i. 173; Goethe's acquaintance with him, 175.
Gottfried of the Iron Hand, history of, i. 155.
Götter, Helden und Wieland, i. 210; reviewed by Wieland, 211.
Göttling, his discovery respecting phosphorus, ii. 201.
Götz von Berlichingen, three versions of, i. 153; Goethe's own ac-
count of its composition, 154; character of Gottfried of the Iron
Hand, 155; Götz, a dramatic chronicle, not a drama, 156; singu-
larly un-Shakespearian in construction, 157; in the presentation
of character, 158; in the language, 159; the firstborn of the
romantic school, 160; its injurious influence on dramatic art, 160;
its originality denied by Hegel, 161; scenes from, 163; rewritten,
193; its publication, 195; its effect, 196; translated by Scott,
ii. 227.
Goue, instituted the Round Table at Wetzlar, i. 171.
Greek art, its realistic character as opposed to the idealism of Chris-
tian art, i. 241; Goethe's enthusiasm for, ii. 407.
Greek drama, traditional errors concerning, ii. 9; necessary calmness
of evolution mistaken for calmness of life, 10.
Gretchen, story of Goethe's early love for, i. 42.
Gross Kophta, der, ii. 167.
HAMILTON, Lady, captivates Goethe, ii. 58.
Hamlet, Wilhelm Meister's criticism on, ii. 217; twofold cause of its
popularity; intellectual sublimity, and dramatic variety, 285;
compared with Faust, 286.
Harz, Goethe's journey in, i. 395; ii. 42.
Hegel, criticism of Götz, i. 161; on heroes and valets, 409; a con-
vert to Goethe's erroneous theory of refraction, ii. 130; on Her.
mann und Dorothea, 243.
Heine, anecdote of his first interview with Goethe, ii. 269.
Helena, Carlyle's review of, ii. 438.
Helmholtz, his testimony in favor of Goethe's labors in organic
science, ii. 136.
Herculaneum, Goethe's visit to, ii. 59.
Herder, his accquaintance with Goethe, i. 115; his opinion of him,
116; his influence on him, 117; the lineal descendant of Lessing,
264; survey of his works, 264; drawn to Weimar by Goethe,
350; closer intimacy with Goethe, ii. 31; his jealousy of Schiller,
275; his death, 275.
Hereditary transmission of qualities discussed, i. 5.
Hermann und Dorothea, foundation of Goethe's poem, ii. 228; an-
alysis, 229; character of the poem, 240; objective delineation of
the characters, and scenes, 240; pure human existence represented
in the subject-matter, 241; clearness and significance of the style,
242; German criticisms on, 243.
Herzlieb, Minna, Goethe's passion for, ii. 368, 377; his sonnets to
her, 377; heroine of Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 378; her mar-
riage, 385.
Homer, Goethe's studies in, ii. 59.
Höpfner, Goethe's visit to, i. 185.
Horen, die, publication of, ii. 197.
Horn, his description of Goethe to Moors, i. 61.
Humboldts, their acquaintance with Goethe, ii. 198; letter to Goethe
relating the death of Karl August, 426.
IDEAL or subjective intellects contrasted with real or objective intel-
lects, i. 72; idealism the dominant and persistent characteristic of
German literature, 240; the dominant characteristic of Christian
art, 241; perpetual struggle between realism and idealism, 249;
idealism asserts itself after the realistic reaction of the Crusades,
253; Klopstock the representative of German idealism, 256; Schil-
ler the idealist, 266.
Ideas, tyranny of, i. 148; ideas constructed out of the depth of moral
consciousness, ii, 205; idea of Faust, 287.
Ilmenau, Goethe's poem of, ii. 40; his oration on the re-opening of
the mines, 43; his last visit to, 454.
Imitation, its false tendency, ii. 220.
Imperial court of justice at Wetzlar, i. 170.
Intellect, distinction between the subjective and the objective, i. 72.
Intermaxillary bone, discovered by Goethe, its biographical signifi-
cance, ii. 44; a bone of contention among anatomists, 138; its exist-
ence indicated by Galen, but generally supposed to be absent from
man, 139; the comparative method which led to the discovery, 140.
Interpretation, symbolical, extensive application of, ii. 276.
Iphigenia, first composed in prose, ii. 6; comparison of the prose
with the poetic version, 7; Schlegel's error in calling it an echo of
Greek song, 9; not a Greek but a German play, 12; not a drama
but a dramatic poem, 13; analysis of, 14; Miss Swanwick's trans-
lation of, 15.
Irony, principle of, ii. 221.
Italiänische Reise, character of the book, ii. 53.
Italy, first visit of Goethe under an assumed name, ii. 52; Goethe's
delight in the present and not in the past, 54; effect of his resi-
dence in Italy, 62; Goethe's second visit to, 165.
JACOBI, his acquaintance with Goethe, i. 287, 289; his tone and
opinions disliked by Goethe, ii. 48; his animadversions on Wilhelm
Meister, 215; his visit to Goethe at Weimar, 355.
Jena students, their appearance at the Weimar theatre, ii. 248.
Jena, battle of, ii. 355.
Jena library, anecdote of Goethe's enlargement of it, 410.
Jerusalem, his unhappy passion, i. 184; his suicide, 202; abridgment
of Kestner's account of, 218.
Joseph and his Brethren, Goethe's early poem on, i. 41.
Jubilee, Goethe's, celebration of, at Weimar, ii. 423.
KANT, Goethe's studies in, ii. 113.
Karl August, his flattering kindness to Goethe, i. 213; invites Goethe
to Weimar, 312; his trick on Mlle. Göchhausen, 343; his charac-
ter, 347; his close intimacy with Goethe, 356; elects Goethe to the
post of Geheime Legations Rath, 357; silences the protest of the
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