Chapter IV: Later German Criticism

Heine: deceptiveness of his criticism 563

In the _Romantische Schule_, and elsewhere 563

The qualities and delights of it 564

Schopenhauer 566

Vividness and originality of his critical
observation 567

_Die Welt als Wille_, &c. 568

Grillparzer 569

His motto in criticism 569

His results in aphorism 570

And in individual judgment 571

A critic of limitations: but a critic 571

Carrière: his _Æsthetik_ 573

Later German Shakespeare-critics 575

Gervinus: his _German Poetry_ 575

On Bürger 576

The Shakespeare-heretics: Rümelin 577

Freytag 578

Hillebrand and cosmopolitan criticism 579

Nietzsche 581

_Zarathustra_, the _Birth of Tragedy_, and _Der
Fall Wagner_ 582

_Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen_ 582

_La Gaya Scienza_ 583

_Jenseits von Gut und Böse_, &c. 584

_Götzen-Dämmerung_ 585

His general critical position 586

CHAPTER V.

REVIVALS AND COMMENCEMENTS.

Limitations of this chapter 587
Spain 588
Italy 588
De Sanctis 589
Character of his work 590
Switzerland 591
Vinet 592
Sainte-Beuve on him 592

His criticism of Chateaubriand and Hugo 593
His general quality 593
Amiel: great interest of his critical impressions 594
Examples thereof 595
The pity of it 597

CONCLUSION.

§ I. THE PRESENT STATE OF CRITICISM 603

§ II. THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER 610