Chapter XIII Aesthetic Writings
Value of philosophy to a poet—Goethe’s opinion—Schiller’s early philosophizing—The essays on Tragedy—Plan of ‘Kallias’—Kant’s aesthetics—Schiller’s divergence from Kant—Beauty identified with freedom-in-the-appearance—Explication of the theory—Essay on ‘Winsomeness and Dignity’—Essay on ‘The Sublime’—Remarks on Schiller’s general method—Letters to the Duke of Augustenburg—The ‘Letters on Aesthetic Education’—Some minor papers—Essay on ‘Naïve and Sentimental Poetry’.