Chapter XXII: 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 Wuertemberg. 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 reestablishes 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.)
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