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  • A difficult birth with fortunate consequences
  • Living large in Leipzig
  • The aftermath of Leipzig
  • Piety and Kätchen recede
  • Jung-Stilling
  • The lawyer
  • Goethe's busy idleness
  • A portrait of the young Goethe
  • Making poetic use of one's own life
  • Confelia's misfortune
  • Complications at court
  • My writing has become subordinated to life
  • More sturm and drang visitors : Klinger and Kaufmann
  • A farce on the sublime : The triumph of sentimentalism
  • The idea of purity
  • Peace and granite
  • Should he stay in Weimar?
  • The Italian journey : no forwarding address
  • Return to Weimar
  • The revolution, this most terrible of all events
  • Goethe gathers his circle around him
  • Writing for Die Horen
  • Herrmann and Dorothea
  • The clogged springs of poetry
  • Among the romantics
  • Mourning Schiller
  • Pandora or Goethe's double mask
  • Theater squabble : a first clash with Karoline Jagemann
  • Leave-takings : Anna Amalia and Goethe's mother
  • Political events cast long shadows
  • West-eastern divan and poetry as a life force
  • Memory work
  • Faust : the work of a lifetime finished at last
  • Eckermann and Goethe's other assistants
  • Final reflection : becoming who you are