DEPARTURE FROM WETZLAR 143 WETZLAR AND ITS SOCIETY 144 LOTTE BUFF 147 GOETHE'S RELATIONS TO HER 147 KESTNER, LOTTE'S BETROTHED 148 GOETHE, KESTNER, AND LOTTE 149 DEPARTURE FROM WETZLAR 150 KESTNER'S CHARACTERISATION OF GOETHE 151 CHAPTER VIII AFTER WETZLAR 1772--1773 SUICIDE OF JERUSALEM 154 GOETHE VISITS THE FAMILY VON LA ROCHE 155 FRAU VON LA ROCHE 155 MAXIMILIANE VON LA ROCHE 157 UNREST 158 LETTERS TO KESTNER 159 ESTRANGEMENT FROM HIS FATHER 161 SOLITUDE 162 CHAPTER IX SATIRICAL DRAMAS AND FRAGMENTS POET OR ARTIST? 163 LITERARY ACTIVITY 164 _FRANKFURTER GELEHRTEN ANZEIGEN_ 165 _LETTER OF THE PASTOR_ 166 _TWO BIBLICAL QUESTIONS_ 167 RECASTS _GOeTZ VON BERLICHINGEN_ 167 SATIRICAL PLAYS 169 _PROMETHEUS_ 175 _MAHOMET_ 181 _ADLER UND TAUBE_ 183 _KUeNSTLERS ERDEWALLEN_ 184 CHAPTER X _WERTHER_--_CLAVIGO_ 1774 GOETHE'S NEED OF EXTERNAL STIMULUS 185 GOETHE AND THE BRENTANOS 186 ORIGIN OF _WERTHER_ 187 ENGLISH INFLUENCE ON _WERTHER_ 188 PUBLICATION OF _WERTHER_ 189 GOETHE AND WERTHER 190 SECOND PART OF _WERTHER_ 191 WERTHER AND GOETHE 193 INFLUENCE OF _WERTHER_ 196 THE KESTNERS AND _WERTHER_ 198 WERTHERISM 199 _CLAVIGO_ 200 DRAMATISED FROM BEAUMARCHAIS 200 ORIGIN OF _CLAVIGO_ 202 ITS PLOT 202 CONSTRUCTED ON CLASSICAL MODELS 205 _CLAVIGO_ AND GOETHE 206 CHAPTER XI GOETHE AND SPINOZA--_DER EWIGE JUDE_ 1773--1774 GOETHE'S DEBT TO SPINOZA 209 MISDATES SPINOZA'S INFLUENCE 210 _DER EWIGE JUDE_ 212 ORIGINAL PLAN OF IT 213 AS IT WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN 216 ITS DIVISIONS 216 ITS CHARACTERISTICS 216 UNPUBLISHED TILL AFTER GOETHE'S DEATH 218 CHAPTER XII GOETHE IN SOCIETY 1774