[637]. If any one is inclined—as some may be—to apply to this book Mérimée’s own censure of Ticknor and other literary historians for putting things in merely because they have read them, let me simply quote here the names of Henri de Latouche, of Fiorentino, and of Ozanam, to which I could add many others.
[638]. In the Introduction to Lettres à une autre Inconnue (Paris, 1875), p. xlv.
[639]. Third ed., Paris, 1876.
[640]. Ibid., 1874.
[641]. In the Portraits.
[642]. In the Mélanges.
[643]. Also in the Portraits, where the shorter paper on Nodier has some excellent criticism.
[644]. Rather oddly pitchforked into the Carmen volume; the others are in the Portraits.
CHAPTER III.
GOETHE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
[HAMANN]—[LICHTENBERG]—[HERDER]—[HIS DRAWBACKS OF TEDIOUSNESS], [PEDAGOGY], [AND “METEOROSOPHIA,”] [BUT GREAT MERITS]—[THE ‘FRAGMENTE’]—[THE ‘KRITISCHE WALDER’]—[THE ‘URSACHEN DES GESUNKNEN GESCHMACK,’] [THE ‘IDEEN,’ ETC.]—[‘AGE-, COUNTRY-, AND RACE-, CRITICISM’]—[SPECIMENS AND REMARKS]—[WIELAND]—[GOETHE]—[THE ‘HAMLET’ CRITICISM, ETC.]—[THE ‘SPRÜCHE IN PROSA’]—[THE STERNE PASSAGES]—[REVIEWS AND NOTICES]—[THE CONVERSATIONS]—[SOME MORE GENERAL THINGS: GOETHE ON SCOTT AND BYRON]—[ON THE HISTORIC AND COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF LITERATURE]—[SUMMING UP: THE MERITS OF GOETHE’S CRITICISM]—[ITS DRAWBACKS: TOO MUCH OF HIS AGE]—[TOO MUCH A UTILITARIAN OF CULTURE]—[UNDULY NEGLECTFUL OF LITERATURE AS LITERATURE]—[SCHILLER]—[HIS ÆSTHETIC DISCOURSES]—[THE BÜRGER REVIEW]—[THE ‘XENIEN’]—[THE CORRESPONDENCE WITH GOETHE]—[THE ‘NAÏVE AND SENTIMENTAL POETRY’]—[OTHERS: BÜRGER]—[RICHTER]—[THE ‘VORSCHULE DER ÆSTHETIK’]—[THE SO-CALLED “ROMANTIC SCHOOL”]—[NOVALIS]—[THE ‘HEINRICH’]—[THE EARLIER ‘FRAGMENTS’]—[THE LATER]—[HIS CRITICAL MAGNIFICENCE]—[TIECK]—[THE SCHLEGELS]—[THEIR GENERAL POSITION AND DRIFT]—[THE ‘CHARACTERISTIKEN’]—[A. W.: THE ‘KRITISCHE SCHRIFTEN’ OF 1828]—[ON VOSS]—[ON BÜRGER]—[THE ‘URTHEILE,’ ETC.]—[THE ‘VORLESUNGEN ÜBER DRAMATISCHE KUNST UND LITERATUR’]—[THEIR INITIAL AND OTHER MERIT]—[THE SCHLEGELIAN POSITION]—[THE ‘VORLESUNGEN ÜBER SCHÖNE LITERATUR UND KUNST’]—[ILLUSTRATED STILL MORE BY FRIEDRICH]—[UHLAND]—[SCHUBARTH]—[SOLGER]—[PERIODICALS, HISTORIES, ETC.]