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Anhang
38. The Fine Arts.
39 The Fine Arts, Reysdael as Poet.
40. Reinecke Fuchs, Achilleis, Pandora. Hermann und Dorothea. Glance other this vol. once
more.
41-42. Second Part of Faust. Look it over again.
43. Third Journey into Switzerland. Letters to Meyer. Excellent description of Frankfort here.
44. On Art.
45-46. Theatre. German Literature. Foreign Literature. To be read with care.
49. Miscellanies, among which is the Lehre von Versuch.- to be read with care
51-52. Mineralogy, Geology, Farbenlehre
53-54. Historique of the Farbenlehre
55. Appendix to Farben & Pflanzenlehre with a memoir on Osteology.
Notes upon the works of Goethe (Oct. 1837)
New lights on Germany, influences from Klopstock, Wieland, Herder, and in less degree from
Gleim. How much Lavater and Jacobi demanded of their friends. Effect produced by their
decorous exactions, on the mind and manners of Goethe. [...]
Important letters to Schnuckmann dated 1790 in Doring’s collections give an idea of Goethe’s
position as Geheimrath. [...]
His five years old Son, – what he taught him. The Felix of the Meister.
Finishes W. Meister, which has occupied him six years. ”One of the most incalculable
productions,” he says, ”for which I myself have scarcely a measure.” [...]
Extreme activity to which Goethe & Schiller urged one another. [...]
Richter visits G. 1796. [...]
Soon after he says to Schiller, speaking of W. Meister which he calls ”the great work,” & of his
”very many occupations beside.” ”I have almost become a convert to your way of life, & scarce go
out of the house.”
What strong gratitude and esteem he expresses for Schiller! ”Your letters are now my only
entertainment. Continue to cheer and stimulate me!” [...]
N’s opinion of Wilhelm Meister appears to me very unworthy of him. I do not know what he
means by Nature if he can say Goethe never forgets her. I subjoin it.
”Wilhem Meister’s Apprenticeship is, in a certain sense thoroughly prosaic and modern. – The
Romantic is completely leveled in it – so is the poetry of Nature, the Wonderful. The book treats
only of the ordinary affairs of men; Nature and the Mysterious (Mysticism) are utterly forgotten. It
is a poeticized, civic and domestic story. The Wonderful in it is expressly treated as fiction and
enthusiastic dreaming. Aptistlike Atheism is the spirit of the book. The economy is worthy of note,
with which it produces a poetical effect, by means of cheap prosaic stuff.” Novalis
I should think there were many half meanings in all this.