The Youth of Goethe. Peter Hume Brown
LILI SCHÖNEMANN
1775
| THE SCHÖNEMANN FAMILY | 247 |
| GOETHE'S INTRODUCTION TO LILI SCHÖNEMANN | 248 |
| HIS SUBSEQUENT MEMORY OF HER | 249 |
| LILI COMPARED WITH HIS PREVIOUS LOVES | 250 |
| GOETHE'S SONGS ADDRESSED TO HER | 251 |
| COUNTESS STOLBERG | 253 |
| GOETHE'S RELATIONS TO HER | 253 |
| ERWIN UND ELMIRE | 255 |
| STELLA | 257 |
| CLAUDINE VON VILLA BELLA | 263 |
| A DISTRACTED LOVER | 266 |
| BETROTHED TO LILI | 268 |
| SHRINKS FROM MARRIAGE | 269 |
| COUNTS STOLBERG IN FRANKFORT | 270 |
| GOETHE STARTS WITH THEM FOR SWITZERLAND | 271 |
| VISITS HIS SISTER AT EMMENDINGEN | 273 |
| WITH LAVATER IN ZURICH | 275 |
| ACCOMPANIES PASSAVANT TO ST. GOTHARD | 276 |
| LYRICS TO LILI | 276 |
| RETURN TO FRANKFORT | 278 |
LAST MONTHS IN FRANKFORT—THE URFAUST
1775
| RELATIONS TO LILI ON HIS RETURN | 279 |
| A CRISIS IN THEIR RELATIONS | 281 |
| MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTS | 282 |
| ESTIMATES OF GOETHE BY SULZER AND ZIMMERMANN | 283 |
| INVITATION TO WEIMAR | 284 |
| PROPOSED JOURNEY TO ITALY | 285 |
| A DELAYED MESSENGER | 286 |
| DEPARTS FOR WEIMAR | 287 |
| EGMONT AND THE URFAUST | 287 |
| THE URFAUST | 288 |
| CHARACTERISTICS | 293 |
PREFACE
"Generally speaking," Goethe has himself said, "the most important period in the life of an individual is that of his development—the period which, in my case, breaks off with the detailed narrative of Dichtung und Wahrheit." In reality, as we know, there is no complete breach at any point in the lives of either nations or individuals. But if in the life of Goethe we are to fix upon a dividing point, it is his departure from Frankfort and his permanent settlement in Weimar in his twenty-seventh year. Considered externally, that change of his surroundings is the most obvious event in his career, and for the world at large marks its division into two well-defined periods. In relation to his inner development his removal from Frankfort