[263] ~Werther~. Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774) was a product of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature, and responsible for its sentimental excesses. Goethe mentions Ossian in connection with Homer in Werther, book II, "am 12. October," and translates several passages of considerable length toward the close of this book.
[264] ~Prometheus~. An unfinished drama of Goethe's, of which a fine fragment remains.
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[265] For ~Llywarch Hen~, see Note 1, p. 180.[Transcriber's note: This is Footnote 260 in this e-text.] The present quotation is from book II of the Red Book. A translation of the poem differing somewhat from the one quoted by Arnold is contained in W.F. Skene's The Four Ancient Books of Wales, Edinburgh, 1868.
[266] From On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year, 1824.
[267] From Euthanasia, 1812.
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[268] ~Manfred, Lara, Cain~. Heroes of Byron's poems so named.
[269] From Paradise Lost, I, 105-09.