[25] "_Material_," _e.g._ colour, sound, heavy matter, etc.
[26] "_Element_:" perhaps more especially any mental function entering into art--sense, imagination, understanding, etc.
[28] "_Haltpunkte_:" ultimate points that the matter of art must not leave hold of, leading ideas that must somehow dominate it.
[29] "_Gestaltung_:" shaping, as if arrangement of shapes.
[33] "_Bildenden Künste._" I am not sure if I have given the best rendering. It is wider than _Plastik_, because it includes painting and architecture.
[34] _Die Horen_--the monthly magazine whose establishment by Schiller, in 1795, first brought Schiller and Goethe into contact. It only existed for three years. See Scherer, Eng. Trans., ii. 173.
[35] That is, not a caprice of nature or art, but the perfection of the object _after its kind_.
[38] "_Drama_," Gr. [Greek: drama] = _Handlung_, "action."
[42] "_Begeistet wird_"--"Is spiritualized."
[43] I have no doubt he means Shakespeare, who was unpopular in Germany before Goethe's time. _Vide_ "Wilhelm Meister."
[44] "_Das Wahre sehen nicht die einzelnen_," etc.
[45] The exhibition of particulars as contained in the principle, and of the principle as contained in particulars.
[48] See Appendix to Eng. Trans. of Scherer, ii. 347. Goethe's "Götz von Berlichingen" appeared in 1773; Schiller's "Raüber" in 1781.
[49] The "Iphigenie" was completed in Goethe's thirty-eighth year, fourteen years later than "Götz." The bulk of his great works are of the same date as the "Iphigenie," or later. See Scherer, ii. 152, and Appendix, 1. c. Schiller's "Wallenstein" was completed after his thirty-fifth year.
[51] _i.e._ it requires a definite or determinate answer, depending on a number of ideas which cannot be explained in an introduction.
[52] _i.e._ considered generally, apart from the wishes and, perhaps, selfish aims of individual artists.
[54] Reality derivative from his own reality.
[55] He means as in attitude, bearing, gentle movement, etc.
[58] _i.e._ you cannot describe it or picture it definitely, like a thing with attributes, although you feel it in yourself.
[59] _i.e._ you may be afraid of anything; the fact that you are afraid does not in itself indicate what you are afraid of.