[5] These remarks will hold good, mutatis mutandis, if by ‘substance’ is understood the ‘moral’ or the ‘idea’ of a poem, although perhaps in one instance out of five thousand this may be found in so many words in the poem.
[6] On the other hand, the absence, or worse than absence, of style, in this sense, is a serious matter.
[7] Note C.
[8] This paragraph is criticized in Note D.
[9] Note E.
[10] Not that to Schiller ‘form’ meant mere style and versification.
[11] Note F.
[12] Note G.
[13] In Schiller’s phrase, they have extirpated the mere ‘matter.’ We often say that they do this by dint of style. This is roughly true, but in strictness it means, as we have seen, not that they decorate the mere ‘matter’ with a mere ‘form,’ but that they produce a new content-form.
