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. GOTHARD 276
LYRICS TO LILI 276
RETURN TO FRANKFORT 278

CHAPTER XIV

LAST MONTHS IN FRANKFORT--THE _URFAUST_

1775

RELATIONS TO LILI ON HIS RETURN 279
A CRISIS IN THEIR RELATIONS 281
MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTS 282
ESTIMATES OF GOETHE BY SULZER AND ZIMMERMANN 283
INVITATION TO WEIMAR 284
PROPOSED JOURNEY TO ITALY 285
A DELAYED MESSENGER 286
DEPARTS FOR WEIMAR 287
_EGMONT_ AND THE _URFAUST_ 287
THE _URFAUST_ 288
CHARACTERISTICS 293

PREFACE

"Generally speaking," Goethe has himself said, "the most important
period in the life of an individual is that of his development--the
period which, in my case, breaks off with the detailed narrative of
_Dichtung und Wahrheit_." In reality, as we know, there is no complete
breach at any point in the lives of either nations or individuals. But
if in the life of Goethe we are to fix upon a dividing point, it is
his departure from Frankfort and his permanent settlement in Weimar in
his twenty-se