The Life and Genius of Goethe

by various authors

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Goethe in Age.

From the bust by Rauch about 1820.

 

The
Life and Genius
of
Goethe

Lectures at the Concord School
of Philosophy

Edited by
F. B. Sanborn

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Boston
Ticknor and Company
1886

 

 

Copyright, 1885,
By Ticknor and Company.

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All rights reserved.

 

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

 

Contents.

Portraits.

1. Goethe in Age.From Rauch's Bust ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   Frontispiece.

2. Goethe in Youth ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   To face p. 1

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1. Page

2. Introduction.—The Goethe Society and the Goethe Archives.—Bibliography of Goethe's Works, of Works on Goethe, and of Papers on Goethe—The Concord School ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   v

3. I.

   Goethe's Youth.Prof. H. S. White ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   1

4. II.

   Goethe's Self-Culture.John Albee ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   37

5. III.

   Goethe's Titanism.Thomas Davidson ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   68

6. IV.

   Goethe and Schiller.Rev. C. A. Bartol ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   107

7. V.

   Goethe's Märchen.Rev. F. H. Hedge ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   135

8. VI.

   Goethe's Relation to English Literature.F. B. Sanborn ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   157

9. VII.

   Goethe as a Playwright.William Ordway Partridge ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   189

10. VIII.

    Das Ewig-Weibliche.Mrs. E. D. Cheney ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    218

11. IX.

    The Elective Affinities.S. H. Emery, Jr. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    251

12. X.

    Child Life as portrayed by Goethe.Mrs. Caroline K. Sherman ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    290

13. XI.

    History of the Faust Poem.Denton J. Snider ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    313

14. XII.

    Goethe's Women.Mrs. Julia Ward Howe ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    345

15. XIII.

    Goethe's Faust.W. T. Harris ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    368

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1. Index ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   447