CHAPTER II.

Goethe at Leipsic; nominal studies at the university; dejection, and recovery of his usual good spirits; his love for Annette Schönkopf; forms many friendships; takes lessons in art from Oeser and Stock; goes to Dresden to study the picture gallery; reads Dodd’s “Beauties of Shakespeare”; influenced by Wieland, Lessing, and Winckelmann; writes “Die Laune des Verliebten” and “Die Mitschuldigen”; early lyrics; illness; partial recovery; returns to Frankfort in August, 1768; renewed illness; influenced by Fräulein von Klettenberg; sees General Paoli; Annette Schönkopf married; in April, 1770, goes to Strasburg to attend the university; feels at home in Strasburg; Salzmann; Jung Stilling; sees Marie Antoinette; impressed by antiquities at Neiderbronn; meets Herder; Herder’s character; the movement of thought in Europe; Herder’s influence on Goethe; Goethe and Frederika Brion; returns to Frankfort in August, 1771; his poetic genius awakened by love 24