CHAPTER VIII.

Schiller arrives at Weimar in 1787; his character; meets Goethe for the first time; settles as a professor at Jena; his marriage; Goethe calls upon him in 1790, and they talk about Kant’s philosophy; Schiller goes to Würtemberg; on his return asks Goethe to write for the _Horen_; Schiller spends a fortnight in Goethe’s house; their friendship; what it did for Schiller; and for Goethe; the “Xenien”; “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre”; “Hermann und Dorothea”; “Alexis und Doris”; ballads; Goethe as a lyrical poet; “Die Propyläen”; “Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert”; autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; “Rameaus Neffe”; Schiller’s “Wallenstein” represented at Weimar; Schiller settles at Weimar; great period in history of Weimar; Goethe and the philosophical movement of the age; Goethe and the Romantic School; Madame de Staël; “Die Natürliche Tochter”; works at “Faust”; Death of Schiller; Goethe’s grief 134