[4] The reference is of course to lyric composition. By reale Individualisirung Hegel seems to refer to the apprehension by the lyric poet of the individual subjective experience in its independent reality.
[5] What Hegel means apparently by this statement is that the results of the action are in the view of the persons concerned primarily referred to their own act of volition and sense of responsibility, and as such they modify their future intention or conduct.
[6] Poet. c. 5.
[7] Einem colliderenden Handeln.
[8] As lyric poetry is.
[9] Poet., c. 7.
[10] The fact should be noted, however, that in the illustration each division is a complete whole in itself.
[11] Hegel apparently means this by his reference to die beiden ersten Elemente, but the passage is not very clear.
[12] Gehalt. That is, an imaginative personality, which seizes the type and our general humanity.
[13] In this obscure passage I have rather sought to emphasize what appears to me the general sense than adhere to literal accuracy. What is contrasted is clearly the naturalism of such a diction as Schiller's "Robbers" and the French classic diction.