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“Great Writers.”

EDITED BY

PROFESSOR ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A.

LIFE OF GOETHE.{2}

LIFE

OF

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE

BY

JAMES SIME

———

LONDON
WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE

NEW YORK: THOMAS WHITTAKER

TORONTO: W. J. GAGE & CO.

1888

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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Goethe born, August 28, 1749; his grandfather and grandmother;his father, Johann Kaspar Goethe; his mother;his sister Cornelia; a child of an imaginative temperament;his grandmother’s last Christmas gift; his father’s houserebuilt; his knowledge of Frankfort; the Council-house;education; Klopstock’s “Messiah”; folk-books; the SevenYears’ War; Count Thorane and Goethe; lessons interruptedand renewed; early religious ideas; his first love;in 1765 leaves Frankfort to study at the university ofLeipsic	11
CHAPTER II.
Goethe at Leipsic; nominal studies at the university; dejection,and recovery of his usual good spirits; his love forAnnette Schönkopf; forms many friendships; takes lessonsin art from Oeser and Stock; goes to Dresden to studythe picture gallery; reads Dodd’s “Beauties of Shakespeare”;influenced by Wieland, Lessing, and Winckelmann;writes “Die Laune des Verliebten” and “DieMitschuldigen”; early lyrics; illness; partial recovery;returns to Frankfort in August, 1768; renewed illness;{6}influenced by Fräulein von Klettenberg; sees GeneralPaoli; Annette Schönkopf married; in April, 1770, goesto Strasburg to attend the university; feels at home inStrasburg; Salzmann; Jung Stilling; sees Marie Antoinette;impressed by antiquities at Neiderbronn; meetsHerder; Herder’s character; the movement of thought inEurope; Herder’s influence on Goethe; Goethe andFrederika Brion; returns to Frankfort in August, 1771;his poetic genius awakened by love	... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!