CHAPTER X.

Marriage of August Goethe with Ottilie von Pogwisch; Goethe gives up the directorate of the Weimar Theatre; Wilhelmine Herzlieb; Marianne von Willemer; Ulrica von Levezow; celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Duke’s accession; and of the fiftieth anniversary of Goethe’s arrival at Weimar; death of the Grand Duke, 1828; of the Grand Duchess, 1830; of Goethe’s son August, 1830; Eckermann; his “Conversations with Goethe”; Heine visits Goethe; gift from English admirers; Goethe’s feeling as to social problems; “Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre”; “Kunst und Alterthum”; his letters, and the character they reveal; the Second Part of “Faust”; his death, March 22, 1832; general view of his work. 170

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NOTE.

The best sources of information about Goethe are his own works and letters. It would be ungrateful, however, not to acknowledge the service which has been rendered to students of his character and genius by various German scholars. Among the writers whose researches I myself have found helpful, I may name Heinrich Düntzer, Herman Grimm, Karl Biedermann, and Erich Schmidt.

J. S.

LIFE OF GOETHE