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The Life of Friedrich Schiller

by Thomas Carlyle

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Appendix I

No. 1. Daniel Schubart

Influence of Schubart’s persecutions on Schiller’s mind. His Birth and Boyhood. Sent to Jena to study Theology: Profligate life: Returns home. Popular as a preacher: Skilful in music. A joyful, piping, guileless mortal. (p. 341.)—Prefers pedagogy to starvation. Marries. Organist to the Duke of Würtemberg. Headlong business, amusement and dissipation. His poor Wife returns to her Father: Ruin and banishment. A vagabond life. (343.)—Settles at Augsburg, and sets up a Newspaper: Again a prosperous man: Enmity of the Jesuits. Seeks refuge in Ulm: His Wife and Family return to him. The Jesuits on the watch. Imprisoned for ten years: Interview with young Schiller. (346.)—Is at length liberated. Joins his Wife at Stuttgard, and reëstablishes his Newspaper. Literary enterprises: Death. Summary of his character. (351.)

No. 2. Letters of Schiller to Dalberg

Brief account of Dalberg. Schiller’s desire to remove to Mannheim. Adaptation of the Robbers to the stage. (p. 354.)—Struggles to get free from Stuttgard and his Ducal Jailor: Dalberg’s friendly help. Friendly letter to his friend Schwann. (362.)

No. 3. Friendship With Goethe

Goethe’s feeling of the difference in their thoughts and aims: Great Nature not a phantasm of her children’s brains. Growing sympathy and esteem, unbroken to the end. (p. 371.)

No. 4. Death of Gustavus Adolphus

Schiller’s historical style. A higher than descriptive power. (p. 375.)

Appendix II

Schiller’s Life into German; Author’s Note thereon. (p. 380.)—Goethe’s introduction (in German), with Four Prints. (393.)

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