Chapter III The Stuttgart Medicus
Schiller’s position at Stuttgart—Personal appearance—Convivial pleasures—Visits at Solitude—Revision of ‘The Robbers’ for publication—The two prefaces—Reception of ‘The Robbers’—A stage-version prepared for Dalberg—Changes in the stage-version—Popularity of the play—Medicus and poet—The ‘Anthology’ of 1782—Character of Schiller’s youthful verse—Various poems considered—The songs to Laura—Poetic promise of the ‘Anthology’—Journalistic enterprises—Schiller as a critic of himself—Quarrel with Duke Karl—The Swiss imbroglio—The duke implacable—Flight from Stuttgart.