The Great Duumvirate

Goethe and Schiller--Six years of aloofness--Beginning of intimacy--The
'happy event'--Campaign for the conquest of Goethe---Schiller, on
Goethe's genius--A friendly relation established--Comparison of the
duumvirs--Fortunes of the _Horen_--Return to poetry--Significance of the
essay on 'Naive and Sentimental Poetry'--Goethe on Schiller's
theory--Enemies assail the _Horen_--The Xenia planned in retaliation--A
militant league formed--The fusillade of the Xenia--Effect of the
Xenia--Return to the drama--Further relations of Goethe and Schiller.


CHAPTER XV

Later Poems

General character of Schiller's poetry--'The Veiled Image at Sais'--'The
Ideal and Life'--Idealism of Goethe and Schiller--'The Walk'--Poems of
1796--'Dignity of Women'--'The Eleusinian Festival'--The
ballads--Attitude toward the present--Lyrics of thought--'The Maiden's
Lament'--Popularity of Schiller's cultural poems--'The Song of the
Bell'--Latest poems.


CHAPTER XVI

Wallenstein