Contents

Foreword

vii

1.

Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

1

2.

Goethe and Stolberg in Italy: The Consequences for Romantic Art

25

3.

Schiller: Wallenstein

45

4.

Laocoon, Dante, Shakespeare, August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Overcoming of Tragedy

59

5.

Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography

79

6.

Kleist’s Metamorphoses. Some Remarks on the Use of Mythology in Penthesilea

95

7.

Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and Academic Freedom

123

8.

Fairy Stories for Very Sophisticated Children: Ludwig Tieck’s Phantasus

147

9.

Gundolf’s Romanticism

161

10.

Some Remarks on the New Edition of the Works of Wilhelm Müller

179

11.

Heine and Shakespeare

207

12.

The ‘Schillerfeier’ of 1859 and the ‘Shakespearefest’ of 1864. With Some Remarks on Theodor Fontane’s Contributions

223

13.

Under the Horse’s Tail: The Poets, Statuary and the Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century Germany

245

14.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: ‘Der Zürchersee’

271

15.

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

293

16.

Rilke: Duino Elegy Ten: In memoriam Leslie Seiffert, 1934–90

313

17.

Julius Hare’s German Books in Trinity College Library, Cambridge

339

Bibliography

365

List of Illustrations

389

Index

393