The Globe[299]
Charles de Rémusat, Vitet, J. J. Ampère[300]
Sainte-Beuve: his topography[301]
The earlier articles[302]
Portraits Littéraires and Portraits de Femmes[304]
The Portraits Contemporains[306]
He “arrives”[309]
Port-Royal[310]
Its literary episodes[311]
On Racine[312]
Chateaubriand et son Groupe Littéraire[313]
Faults found with it[314]
Its extraordinary merits[315]
And final dicta[316]
The Causeries at last[317]
Their length, &c.[318]
Bricks of the house[319]
His occasional polemic[322]
The Nouveaux Lundis[324]
The conclusion of this matter[326]
Michelet and Quinet[329]
Hugo[330]
William Shakespeare[331]
Littérature et Philosophie[331]
The Cromwell Preface[332]
And that to the Orientales[333]
Capital position of this latter[334]
The “work”[335]
Nisard: his Ægri Somnia[335]
His Essais sur le Romantisme[336]
Their culpa maxima[338]
Gautier[339]
His theory—“Art for Art’s sake,” &c.[340]
His practice—Les Grotesques[341]
Histoire du Romantisme, &c.[341]
Ubiquity of felicity in his criticism[342]
Saint-Marc Girardin[343]
Planche[344]
Weight of his criticism[344]
Magnin[347]
Mérimée[348]

CHAPTER III.

GOETHE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

Hamann[352]
Lichtenberg[354]
Herder[355]
His drawbacks of tediousness[355]
Pedagogy[355]
And meteorosophia[356]
But great merits[356]
The Fragmente[356]
The Kritische Walder[357]
The Ursachen des Gesunknen Geschmacks[357]
The Ideen, &c.[358]
Age-, Country-, and Race-, Criticism[358]
Specimens and Remarks[359]
Wieland[360]
Goethe[361]
The Hamlet criticism, &c.[361]
The Sprüche in Prosa[362]
The Sterne passages[363]
Reviews and Notices[365]
The Conversations[366]
Some more general things: Goethe on Scott and Byron[372]
On the historic and comparative estimate of literature[372]
Summing up: the merits of Goethe’s criticism[373]
Its drawbacks: too much of his age[374]
Too much a utilitarian of Culture[375]
Unduly neglectful of literature as literature[376]
Schiller[377]
His Æsthetic Discourses[378]
The Bürger review[378]
The Xenien[380]
The Correspondence with Goethe[381]
The Naïve and Sentimental Poetry[383]
Others: Bürger[384]
Richter[385]
The Vorschule der Æsthetik[385]
The so-called “Romantic School”[386]
Novalis[387]
The Heinrich[387]
The earlier Fragments[388]
The later[389]
His critical magic[390]
Tieck[390]
The Schlegels[391]
Their general position and drift[392]
The Characteristiken[393]
A. W.: the Kritische Schriften of 1828[394]
On Voss[394]
On Bürger[395]
The Urtheile, &c.[396]
The Vorlesungen über Dramatische Kunst und Literatur[396]
Their initial and other merit[397]
The Schlegelian position[398]
The Vorlesungen über Schöne Literatur und Kunst[399]
Illustrated still more by Friedrich[401]
Uhland[402]
Schubarth[403]
Solger[404]
Periodicals, Histories, &c.[404]

CHAPTER IV.

THE CHANGE IN THE OTHER NATIONS[406]
INTERCHAPTER VIII.
(WITH AN EXCURSUS ON PERIODICAL CRITICISM.)[408]

BOOK IX.