Dupin's
cosmopolitan
works, 44.
Thomas Carlyle
(224-227. )
Carlyle to Goethe, 23d October. --From the first sentence
of your otherwise most welcome letter, I fear that mine of
August may have failed to reach you, but will still hope that
it was not so. Schiller and Burns. The peculiar expressive-
ness of the latter's diction, at all times hard to be seized by a
translator: the whole British nation passionately attached to
him. Our kindest wishes every way to Ottilie. (227-236. )
The same, 15th November. --The box, with all its precious
contents, arrived in perfect order. I now enclose a few lines
of thanks to our Berlin friends. Your Introduction to Schiller
fitter to have stood at the head of some Epic Poem of my
writing than here. Am sometimes meditating a translation
of Faust, for which the English world is getting more and
more prepared. Postscript of grateful thanks from Mrs.
Carlyle. (236-242. )
Eckermann to Carlyle, 6th December. -- I returned to
Weimar last week alone. Herr von Goethe, the son, as you
perhaps have heard, died at Rome. Goethe also has had so
violent a hemorrhage of the lungs that his life was in danger;
but he is now up again and busy in his usual ways. I now
look forward to the completion of Faust, of which so much is
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finished. It is not for me to offer advice, but were I in your
place I would employ my best leisure hours on a faithful trans-
lation. One should never ask if a nation is ready for a work:
nations are matured by daring works. Postscript, by Goethe,
giving assurance of his improved health; with greetings and
blessings to the dear Pair. (242-252. )
Carlyle to Goethe, 22d January 1831. --Words of sympathy
and comfort. Your being busy with a Continuation of Faust
could not be other than great news to me. Have almost de-
termined upon attempting a translation. Taylor's Historic
Survey of German Poetry, which I am reviewing, you may
judge of by the fact that the longest article but one is on
August von Kotzebue. I fear you will not like the satirical
style, but all the more agreeable will be some concluding
speculations, on what after you I have called World-Literature,
with its "Sacred College and Council of Amphictyons. "
Meanwhile, I am working at another curious enterprise of my
own (Sartor Resartus), which is yet too amorphous to be
prophesied of. A little collection of Memorials is getting
together for the next 28th of August. The Saint-Simonians
have again communicated with me. Although wandering in
strange paths, I cannot but look upon their Society and its
progress as a true and remarkable Sign of the Times. The
world is heavily struggling out into a new era; but the Sun
and Seasons are the only changes that visit this wilderness.
(252-260. )
Hitzig to Carlyle, 28th January. --Explaining the objects
of the Berlin Society for Foreign Literature. (260-264. )
Goethe to Carlyle, 2d June. --We have been so secluded of
late, that we have been like to form a kind of Craigenputtock
in the midst of Weimar. Another package of books getting
ready. The good Eckermann of great value to me. Neu-
reuther's Marginal Drawings. Poetry will always remain the
happy refuge of Mankind. Mrs. Carlyle requested to contri-
bute to Ottilie's Periodical, called Chaos. The Metamorphosis
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of Plants. Many good and beautiful hours are still granted
us. The fairest greetings from me and Ottilie for the dear
pair of hermits. (264-276. )
The same, 15th June. --Just as I am about to close the box,
I find there is still room; I am therefore having packed up
for you some numbers of one of our most popular journals,
the Morgenblatt. There is also a copy of the translation of
Schiller for my lady friend, to show her how even the book-
binders of the Continent study neatness and elegance.
(276-278. )
Carlyle to Goethe, 10th June. --Daily do I send affectionate
wishes to the Man, to whom more than any other living, I
stand indebted and united. A little poetic Tugcndbund of
Philo-Germans is forming itself in London, whereof you are
the Centre; the first public act of which should come to light
at Weimar on your approaching Birthday. Of this little
Philo-German Combination; what it now specially proposes,
and whether it is likely to grow into a more lasting union for
more complex purposes,--I hope to speak hereafter. Interest-
ing phenomena of hopeful significance. In these last months
I have been busy with a Piece more immediately my own;
but, alas, it is not a Picture that I am painting, but a half-
reckless casting of the brush, with its many frustrated colours,
against the canvas: whether it will make good Foam is still
a venture. In some six weeks I expect to be in London,
wishing to look a little with my own eyes at the world, getting
so enigmatic. (279-286. )
The same, 13th August. --I now send you a word of remem-
brance from this chaotic whirlpool of a city, where I arrived
three days ago. Endless gratitude I owe you, for it is by you
that I have learned what worth there is in man for his
brother-man; and how the "open secret" is still open for
whoso has an eye. A birthday gift from "Fifteen English
Friends " should reach you on your Birthday. Let me hope it
may arrive in due season, and the sight of it give you some
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gratifying moments. I have come hither chiefly to dispose of
the Piece which I lately described myself as writing: meant
to be a "word spoken in season. " But the whole world here
is dancing a Tarantula Dance of Political Reform, and has no
ear left for Literature. Figure me and mine as thinking of
you, loving you; as present especially on that 28th, with
wishes as warm as loving hearts can feel. (287-291. )
Fifteen English Friends to Goethe. --Begging his accept-
ance of a Birthday Gift, as a true testimony of their feelings of reverence and gratitude towards him. (292-294. )
Goethe to Carlyle, 19th August. --Poetical thanks to "the
Fifteen. "--Britons ye have understood: The mind active, the
deed restrained, the purpose unhastingly steadfast. In the
books you sent I find much that is delightful. The silhouettes,
in an inconceivable way, bring the absent before one. The
gift of the associated friends has afforded us a pleasure as
unusual as unexpected. To the dear Pair, happy hours!
(295-298. )
Appendix II
Goethe to Carlyle, 14th June 1830. --Contents of packet
sent. (See Letter XXVII. p. 193. ) Chaos, a weekly paper, con-
taining social pleasantries, for private circulation. Ottilie, the
sole editor; further favours from our friends in the county of
Dumfries are requested. Hope to send you the translation of
Schiller, in its complete form by the next despatch. (324-327. ) Eckermann to Carlyle, 20th October 1832. --At the desire
of many friends I have translated your first article on Goethe.
(The article, Death of Goethe) I send you to-day two books
which will interest you. Am very busy with Goethe's Post-
humous Works. Doubt if I shall remain in Weimar for the
future. Herr Schwerdgeburth sends you his new portrait of
Goethe, one of the best that has appeared. Pray give my
cordial greetings to Mrs. Carlyle. I hope you will soon
receive a letter from Madame von Goethe herself. (328-332. )
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The same, 10th November 1833. --This is the third letter I
write to you, without knowing whether one of them has
reached you. I now send you the announcement of the
Correspondence between Goethe and Zelter, and the Preface to
it. I trust I may soon hear something from you. (334-337-)
Carlyle to Eckermann, 6th May 1834. --Your kind letter
of the 10th of November reached me only a few days ago.
Your letter of last summer never arrived, and two of mine
seem to have been lost. My last from you was the Weimar
packet of the previous winter, which arrived in perfect safety,
and to which I at once gratefully and copiously replied. And
now, dear Eckermann, after such an interval, pray accept
yourself, and present to our friends, all the thanks you can
imagine me to have expressed. With Whitsuntide we are
to be in London. I have for a long time been in a kind of
spiritual crisis; and you will know how horrible it is to speak
of it, until its issue has become clear. Have had as good as
no concern with German Literature; although my Goethe,
with all that pertains to him, grows greater and ever truer the
more I attain to clearness in myself. My mission, if it may be
so called, of introducing German Literature here, may now be
regarded as fulfilled. Two new translations of Faust in one
day. The fire is kindled, and we have smoke enough: it will
some day be all flame and clear light. "Do thou take thy
bellows, and go elsewhere! " This is one of the aspects of
my spiritual crisis. When we have cast anchor in London
you shall hear from me again. Are we not to see you face
to face in the modern Babel? The lady returns your kind
greetings. Orapro nobis. (337-342. )
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AUSTIN'S, Mrs. , Characteristics of
Goethe, 340; mentioned, 341.
BENTINCK, the Lords, take charge
of a packet from Goethe to
Carlyle, 5, 6.
Berlin Society for Foreign Litera-
ture, 223; letter to Goethe, in-
forming him that Carlyle had
been elected an honorary mem-
ber, 227; to Carlyle, explaining
the objects of the Society, 262;
Goethe's dedication to, of Car-
lyle's Life of Schiller, 299-301.
Boisseree, Dr. Sulpiz, 65.
Boswell's Life of Johnson, 342.
Carlyle; sends translation of Wil-
heln1 Mcister's Apprenticeship to
Goethe, I; delight on receiving
his friendly reply, 6, 13; sends
Life of Schiller, and German
Romance, 7; their favourable
reception in England, 8; packets
from Goethe, xvii, 28, 42, 70,
81, 117, 148, 154, 289, 326;
Articles on German Literature,
45, 122, 158, 168; candidate
for the Professorship of Moral
Philosophy at St. Andrews, 63;
Goethe's Testimonial, 71-80,
89; perplexity about Goethe,
81; Essay on Burns, 123 ; letter
from Goethe received at Craig-
enputtock, 138'; Life of Schiller
translated into German, 144,
149, ISS, 181, 203, 214, 220, 238, 299; no longer any care
for mathematics, 156; still but
an Essayist, 158; projected
History of German Literature,
159, <<63, 17o, 187, 200, 207-11;
packets sent to Goethe, 159-61,
167, 257, 288; letters and books
from the Saint-Simonians, 214,
226, 258; honorary member of
the Berlin Society for Foreign
Literature, 222, 234, 237 ; medi-
tates translating Faust, 240;
urged by Dr. Eckermann, 250;
letter to his mother about
Goethe's illness, 252; a little
Tugenahend of Philo-Germans
forming in London, 281, 323;
Sartor Resartus, 285, 290; in
London, 287; birthday gift to
Goethe, 289; hears at Dumfries
of Goethe's death, 298; kind
gifts from Weimar, 333; in a
kind of spiritual crisis, 339; his
mission of introducing German
Literature to England now ful-
filled, 340; settled in London, 342.
Carlyle, John A. , 13, 138, 292,
333> at Miinchen, 65, 127; letter to, about Goethe, 80.
Carlyle, Margaret, 138, 253.
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Carlyle, Mrs. ; admiration of
Goethe; sends him a purse of
her own making, 10; receives
in return a wrought-iron neck-
lace, 28; writes her thanks, 35;
other presents, 42, 59, 70, 81,
149; friendly greeting to Ottilie
von Goethe, 67, 154; hopes to
visit Germany and Weimar, 68,
126, 166, 173, 185; writes to
Goethe introducing Mr. May
of Glasgow, 91 ; intends to read
Goethe's entire Works, 153; a
present to Ottilie, 157, 180;
sends a lock of her hair to
Goethe, and begs one of his in
return, 161, 179, 206; lively
interest in the Afiihrchen, 186,
214; begs a little scrap of
Schiller's handwriting, 213;
receives a copy of Goethe's
Poems, dated on his birthday,
239; her heartfelt thanks for
so many tokens of kindness,
241 ; last present from Goethe,
278.
Chaos, a Weimar weekly paper, for
private circulation, edited by
Ottilie von Goethe, 235 note,
274, 326-7.
Churchill, translator of Wallen-
stein's Lager, 292.
Cowper's Poems, 161.
Craigenputtock, description of,
124-6; sketches of, sent to
Goethe, 160, 204, 238, 306.
Dupin's cosmopolitan works, 44.
Diirer, Albert, 273.
Eckermann's account of Goethe
and Scott, 54 note; Goethe's
esteem for him, 100; writes to
Carlyle, 108, 127, 142, 247, 330,
335; Carlyle requests his help,
159, "'5- 17? ; going on a
journey south, 183; presents
Carlyle with Wachler's Lectures
on German Literature, 201; re-
turns to Weimar, 247, 272;
editing Goethe's Posthumous
Works, 331, 336. Empson, William, editor of the
Edinburgh Review, 255, 282-4.
Fait, 342.
Farbenlehre, the, 150, 156, 182,
203, 212.
Faust, Lord F. L. Gower's Trans-
lation of, 240, 250; Carlyle's
intention of translating, 240, 250,
252, 254; expected completion
of, 69, 249, 331 ; two transla-
tions of, published the same day,
340.
Fifteen English Friends present a
Birthday-Gift to Goethe, 289-98.
Fliigel, Dr. Ewald, 324.
Fraser, William, editor of the
Foreign Review, 86, no, 208,
292, 297.
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361
Weimar Periodical, called Chaos,
235 note, 274, 326-7. Goethe; commendation of Car-
lyle's Schiller, and of the in-
troductory notices in German
Romance, 22, 23; his high notion
of a World-Literature, 24, 42,
256, 282, 301 ; sends presents to
Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle, 28, 59,
70, 117, 326; two medals for
Sir Walter Scott, 43; Goethe's
appreciation of his Life of Na-
poleon, 53-6; grief at the death
of the Prince, 103, 115; Vogel's
portrait of, 118; his excellent
health, 145; sends engraving of
his house to Carlyle, 165; offers
to advise him as to his projected
History of German Literature,
183; death of his son, 247; his
own serious illness and recovery,
248, 251 ; a Birthday-Gift from
"Fifteen English Friends," 289,
291-4; his death, 298; Introduc-
tion to the translation of Carlyle's
Life of Schiller, 299-323. See
Schiller.
Gower, Lord F. L. , 240, 250, 292.
Hare, Archdeacon, 162 note.
Hazlitt's Life of Napoleon, 83.
Heavyside, Mr. , in Weimar, 57.
Helena, a bright mystic vision, 33,
99, 108, 250.
Heraud, editor of Fraser's Maga-
zine, 292.
Herder, 306.
Hitzig, 223, 227, 234, 262, 275. Hoffmann, 23, 43, 86.
Irving, Edward, mentioned, 1
note, 13.
Jardine, Robert, gives Carlyle
lessons in German, ix.
Jeffrey, Lord, 81, 84, 121, 259.
Jerdan, William, 169, 292.
Kaufmann, Philipp, attempts a
German translation of Burns, 223, 232.
Leslie, Professor, 156 note.
Lessing, 190.
Lockhart, 45, 54 note, 81, 83,
292; his Life of Burns, 313.
Maginn, Dr. , 292.
Miihrchen, Das, 185, 205, 214.
May, Mr. , of Glasgow, 91.
Metamorphosis of Plants, The, 275.
Moir, George, translator of Wal- lenstein, 101, 122, 292; makes
sketches of Craigenputtock, to
be sent to Goethe, 160.
Montagu, Mrs. , mentioned, 13.
Moore, Thomas, to write a His-
tory of Ireland, 170.
Morgentlatt, the, 278.
Muller's, Chancellor von, Essay
on Goethe, 331, 336, 338.
Miiliner's Plays, 168.
Musaus, 23.
Neureuther's Marginal Draw-
ings to Goethe's Parables, 272.
Niebuhr; translation of his History
of Rome, 162.
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SACHS-WEIMAR-EISENACH, Duke
of; his death greatly lamented
by Goethe, 103, 116.
Sartor Resartus, first struggling
conception of, 210, 252; yet too
amorphous to be prophesied of,
256, 285; meant to be a "word
spoken in season," 290.
Schiller, Life of, xiii; sent to
Goethe, 7; his high commenda-
tion of it, 22, 302; Correspond-
ence of, with Goethe, 143, 155,
161, 172, 202, 212; Carlyle's
Essay on, 161; Garden-house
at Jena, 204; contrasted with
Burns, 231.
Schulze, Ernst, 43.
Schwerdgeburth's portrait of
Goethe, 334.
Scottish Songs, 20, 118.
Scott, Sir Walter; Goethe sends
two medals for, 43, 45, 81, 121;
his Life of Napoleon, 53-6, 83;
article on Hoffmann, 86; His-
tory of Scotland, 170; one
of Goethe's "Fifteen English
Friends," 292.
Seal sent to Goethe on his eighty-
second Birthday, 289-97.
Seidel, Dr. , 264.
Simonians, Saint, 214, 226, 258.
Skinner, Captain, 90, 98, 134.
Soret, M. , 275.
Southey, 292.
StaeTs, Madame de, Germany,
viii.
Strachey, Mrs. ; her admiration for
the Lehrjahre, 9. Swan, Mr. , of Kirkcaldy, ix.
Taylor, William, of Norwich,
122; his Historic Survey of
German Poetry, 255.
Thackeray's account of life at
Weimar, 59-62. Tieck, Carlyle's esteem for, II.
Thirlwall, 162 note.
Thomson, Dr. A. T. , 44 note.
Thorwaldsen, 247 note.
Translation, peculiar uses of a
good, 26, IOI.
UTILITARIANISM in England, 164,
173, 192-
VERSES sent by Goethe to Carlyle,
21, 29, 30, 46, 148, 151, 295. Voeux's, Des, translation of
Goethe's Tasso, 41, 87-9.
Wachler, Dr. Ludwig, 201, 212, 221, 326.
Wallenstein, Professor Moir's trans-
lation of, 101, 122.
Weimar, society in, 57, 59-62.
Werner, Zacharias, 85, 99.
Werner's Mineralogy first set
Carlyle studying German, 157.
Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship,
x, xiii; sent to Goethe, I; its
reception in England, 8, 9; the
Travels, 7, 8, 66, 144, 154.
Wilson, Professor, editor of Black-
woofs Magazine, 81, 292.
Wolley, Thomas, 59, 90.
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