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Excerpt from Goethe and Schiller, Their Lives and Works: Including a Commentary on Goethe's Faust
It may be necessary to state that, as the book has been written entirely in this country, I have had access tono new documents, and have therefore been obliged to rely upon books for my biographical material. Grimm's excel lent Life of Goethe Goethe, Vorlesungen gehalten der Koniglichen Universitat zu Berlin, von Hermann Grimm, Berlin, 1877) appeared just in time to furnish me with the results of the latest investigations, and Palleske's Schiller's Leben und Werke (neunte verbesserte Auf age, Stuttgart, 1877) has as yet not been superseded. I have, however, not followed any of these authorities blindly, but have taken pains to compare the various biographies, and, where the accounts con?icted, have accepted the one which seemed especially to embody the spirit of Goethe's or Schiller's life, or which seemed best substantiated by ir refutable documents. Thus, in Goethe's case, I have, beside Grimm, constantly consulted Viehof (goethe's Leben, dritte verbesserte Au?age, Stuttgart, 1858) and Goedeke Goethe's Leben und Schriften, Stuttgart, 1874) and, in the case of Schiller, Caroline von Wolzogen Schiller's Leben, Verfasst aus Erinnerungeu der Familie, Stuttgart und Tiibingen, 1830) and Ho?'meister Schiller's Leben. Geistesentwickelung und Werke, Stuttgart.
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