Chapter X Anchored in Thuringia
Weimar in Schiller’s time—Renewal of relations with Charlotte von Kalb—First meeting with Herder and Wieland—Visit to Jena—Pleased with Weimar—New literary pursuits—Visit to Meiningen and introduction to the Lengefeld family—Charlotte von Lengefeld—A summer idyl—Awakening interest in the Greeks—First meeting with Goethe—Appointed professor at Jena—Bitterness toward Goethe—Love, betrothal and marriage—‘The Gods of Greece’—‘The Artists’—‘The Ghostseer’—The ‘Letters on Don Carlos’—Review of ‘Egmont’—‘The Misanthrope’—Translations from Euripides and other minor writings.