CHAPTER XII

Dark Days Within and Without

A happy year--Disastrous illness in January, 1791--Feud with
Buerger--Interest in epic poetry--Second illness and desperate
plight--Help from Denmark--Resolution to master Kant's philosophy--Visit
to Suabia--Enterprise of the _Horen_--Attitude toward the
Revolution--Sympathy for Louis XVI.--Prediction of Napoleon--Made a
citizen of the French Republic--Disgust with politics--Program of the
_Horen_--Genius and vocation.


CHAPTER XIII

Aesthetic Writings

Value of philosophy to a poet--Goethe's opinion--Schiller's early
philosophizing--The essays on Tragedy--Plan of 'Kallias'--Kant's
aesthetics--Schiller's divergence from Kant--Beauty identified with
freedom-in-the-appearance--Explication of the theory--Essay on
'Winsomeness and Dignity'--Essay on 'The Sublime'--Remarks on
Schiller's general method--Letters to the Duke of Augustenburg--The
'Letters on Aesthetic Education'--Some minor papers--Essay on 'Naive
and Sentimental Poetry'.


CHAPTER XIV