Chapter III: Goethe and His Contemporaries (3)

The Periodicals of this time are gradually shaking off the disguises and mannerisms which the _Spectator_ had imposed upon those of our last period. The most important of them, after Lessing’s _Dramaturgie_, are the _Frankfurter Gelehrten-Anzeigen_ of Merck, Herder, and Goethe (1772); the _Teutsche Merkur_ of Wieland, next year; the Berlin _Monatschrift_ (1783); the _Jena Allgemeine Literatur-zeitung_ (1785); Schiller’s _Horen_ (1795), and _Musenalmanach_, next year; the Schlegels’ _Athenæum_ (1798). Of literary historians from Bouterwek to Menzel, Schlosser,[803] and others, the list is almost too long to attempt.