о OF GOETHE: WITH SKETCHES OF HIS AGE AND CONTEMPORARIES, FROM PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED SOURCES. BY G. H. LEWES, AUTHOR OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY,' ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. 'Goethe's heart, which few knew, was as great as his intellect, BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. M DCCC LVI. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY PHILIP HOWES SEARS CAMBRIDGE: THURSTON AND TORRY, PRINTERS. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Mistaken notion that the Iphigenia is a specimen of the Greek tragedy. Necessary calmness of evolution in the Greek drama confounded with calmness of life. - Deepest and darkest passions called into play by the Greek dramatists. - Profound difference between Goethe and Euripides. 'Iphigenia' not a Greek but a German play. Not a drama, but a dramatic poem. - Parallel between the Iphigenia of Goethe and the Iphigenia of Euripides. |