The Youth of Goethe

by P. Hume Brown

[111] The poem, entitled Der Wanderer, noted below.

[112] The girl meant was no doubt Käthchen Schönkopf.

[113] Über Goethe's Gedichte (1911), p. 157.

[114] On account of his constant travels between Frankfort and Darmstadt, Goethe was known among his friends as the Wanderer. The poem was written in the autumn, during Goethe's residence in Wetzlar.

[115] Biedermann, op. cit. i. 19-20.

[116] Werther, as Goethe reminds us in one of his Venetian epigrams, was known in China:—

Doch was fördert es mich, dass auch sogar der Chinese Malet mit ängstlicher Hand Werthern und Lotten auf Glas?

[117] The Praktikanten were voluntary attendants on the Imperial Court, had little or no dependence on the authorities, and lived on their own resources.

[118] Caroline Flachsland to Herder, May 25th, 1772.

[119] Goethe to Herder, Werke, Briefe, Band ii. 15.