[Footnote 8: For example: Cuvier, Dannecker and the musician Zumsteeg. The pros and cons of the Karlschule are discussed very fully by Weltrich and also by Minor in their biographies of Schiller.]
[Footnote 9: For example:
Und mit offenem Schlund, welcher Gebirge schluckt,
Ihn das Weltmeer mir nach,—ihn mir der Orkus nach
Durch die Hallen des Todes—
Deinen Namen, Eroberer!]
[Footnote 10: Weltrich, p. 182, argues that the poem is spurious. The question is hard to decide.]
[Footnote 11: "Götz von Berlichingen", Act I.]
[Footnote 12: The acquaintance began, it would seem, in 1775 or 1776. At first Schiller was repelled by Shakspere's 'coldness',—his intermixture of humor and buffoonery with pathos. Of this first impression he wrote many years later, in his essay on 'Naïve and Sentimental Poetry', as follows: "Durch die Bekanntschaft mit neueren Poeten verleitet, in den Werken den Dichter zuerst aufzusuchen, seinem Herzen zu begegnen … war es mir unertraglich, dasz der Poet sich hier gar nirgends fassen liesz und mir nirgends Rede stehen wollte. Mehrere Jahre hatte er meine ganze Verehrung, und war mein Studium, ehe ich sein Individuum lieb gewinnen konnte. Ich war noch nicht fähig, die Natur aus erster Hand zu verstehen.">[
[Footnote 13: Schubart's crime was the utterance of a mild poetic lampoon to the effect that 'when Dionysius of Syracuse was compelled to go out of the tyranny business he became a Schulmeisterlein.' He had also commented too frankly on the duke's relation to Franziska. Angered by these things Karl caused him to be tricked over the borders into Württemberg, seized, and without trial shut up in the dungeon of Hohenasperg, where he was kept for ten years (1777-1787). Schiller visited him in November, 1781, and was received with tears of joy as the author of 'The Robbers'.]
[Footnote 14: Cf. Weltrich, I, 278.]
[Footnote 15: "Ernst ist das Leben, heiter ist die Kunst."—Prologue to
'Wallenstein'.]
[Footnote 16: Weltrich, I, 298 ff., analyzes it and discusses its scientific value at some length.]