We have, indeed, to compare with him Schiller and Goethe, who are not merely the poetic exponents of their own times in a spirit resembling his own, but in their experience as poets are of course far more comprehensive. And, above all, in the songs of Goethe we Germans unquestionably possess the most consummate, profound, and influential poetic compositions of modern times. If they are wholly an expression of the poet they are equally the treasure of his people; and, in fact, as the genuine growth of his native soil, are completely in accord with the fundamental tones of our national life and genius. [Footnote 1: _Subjectivität._ Individual self-conscious life.] [Footnote 2: _Das Subject_, here the individual consciousness which composes.] [Footnote 3: _Ergusses,_ the pouring out into a mould.] [Footnote 4: Vol. IV, pp. 169-172.] [Footnote 5: This appears to be the meaning of the words _die letzte Music eines nationalen Inneren._] [Footnote 6: I presume by _Nachhülfe_ Hegel practically means imitation rather than translation. It may be very much doubted whether any composition, involving a change of language, can give anything but the faintest knowledge of the original folk-song. Goethe's genius could produce poetry out of strange materials, but he could not reproduce the music of another medium.] [Footnote 7: _Subjektiver Art_.] [Footnote 8: Or as the text runs, "and as everybody's poet."] [Footnote 9: Pausanias, I, c. 8.] [Footnote 10: Æschines, ep. 4.] [Footnote 11: _Zusammengezogenheit._ The idea of concentration is also present.] [Footnote 12: I have taken the revised translation.] [Footnote 13: _Äussersichseyn._ The being beside or aloof from oneself, not so much in the sense of infatuation as ecstasy.] [Footnote 14: I presume Hegel means this by the words _nur zum Trällern_; it might mean "merely to be hummed."] [Footnote 15: _Still in sich_.] [Footnote 16: High above the life of earth beneath it shall wave in the blue band of heaven, neighbour to the thunder, on the boundary of the starry world. It shall be a voice from above, ay, as the bright choir of the stars, who praise their Creator in their motion and conduct the garlanded year. Its voice of bronze is dedicate to eternal and earnest matters alone, and, hour by hour, as it swiftly swings backwards and forwards, it is one with Time in its flight.] [Footnote 17: _Einlebung._ This vital fusion with the object.] [Footnote 18: _In seiner in sich Zurückgenommenen Innerlichkeit_.] [Footnote 19: _In seinem Aufgehohenseyn._] [Footnote 20: That is, of the isle of Melos, Sappho's birthplace.] [Footnote 21: Readers of the Xenien of Goethe and Schiller will recall the unsparing attacks which were directed against this formalist and pedant.] [Footnote 22: Even Frederick II "did not see that the art of German poesy was raising itself swift on high from the enduring stock of a stable root, and spread the shade of its branches far abroad."]