New-York tribune., 1875-02-13
TIE POET SCHILLER.
PICTURE BY BAYARD TAYLOR UPON THE AUTHOR
OF wALLENsTEIN."

PICTURE BY BAYARD TAYLOR UPON THE AUIhoh
OF "wALIENsTEIN."
Bayard TAYLOR delivered his lecture on the
poet Schiller" last evening at stenway Hail. for the
benefit OF the Free Dormitory for Women OF " The
Fratsrnas" The at first referred to the resem
blsnce of the American mind to the German ana b"
glisb springing from the same Gothic origin Ihe deF
man language regarded the vehicle OF thougn'
and the English OF expression What German htera'uo
lacks In the latter than supplies in breadth anu
depth. scher's genius not OF the highest order
said the lecturer TO be regarded as OF seconu
rank with Virgil, TAsso Burns Cornelile, ana byron
second only because OF the four Ttans towering III INC
pure air OF poetry-Homer, Dante Shakespeare '"'
Goethe In these there genius poised rs serene ~
planet in space lower plane must pc a'eis
Schiller but not lower interest Few poets nave eA
cited more sympathy and love In the human race'
Schiller Was born in 1850, near Stuttgart MS o,'''
ambition was to be a clergyman, but he stddlod IL"
and medicine His discipline and training were
severe and soulless. His religious %nuehcies
were succeeded by poetic drift. In 1871 ne puosheu
the Robbers" and awoke one morning. hXc Byron "
find himself famous. Thousands OF years had wai'eu
for him. In reading the Robbers" men were amused
ard shocked by its extravaganza Schiller realized tnS
and said that he had tried represent man years be-
fore he knew q man. The Duke Of Wrrtemberg en-
deayored TO exact q pledge from Schiller TO submit
everything he wrote to him before publishing 1hs ne
refused to do and imprisoned Tor INSTRUMENTATION.
In 1882 he fed from Stuttgart This was the storm anu
stress period when the cry In France was, Let us Ie
turn to nature. feeling. heart seven years peIore al
Europe was enraptured over the work OF Goethe Ihs
condition of the reading world was hysterica AFTER
brief career dramatic poet In Mannheim ocnuet wens
in 17s5 to LepzIg whittier he was drawn by HUBER ana
KGrner ,u. -.
scher's Mographers divide his labors and life into
three periods rst that OF assert0n second OF develop
ment and, third of achievement. His early plays re-
feet the reused spirit OF the time For two years ne
lived with Kerner, when he finished his Don Carlos
The charm OF the work was its eloquent PATRIOTISM
While Professor the University OF Jena he married
Charlotte Lengenfed. and lived on salary OF s4oo
a year. There, in 1898. he finished his History OF Tue
Thirty Years War" In 1881 he was laid low with In
Aammaton OF the lungs, and after this sickness ne
@ work marked by a mingled sweetness ana nIe;
There was a natural repulson between schliler aug
Goethe when they first met TDelr nVes tH anu
temperaments totally unlike. In li9i ocnii-
Ter became associated with Goethe IN tne pup,
lcatOn Of magazine called The Hours,
which marks the period or thelr nrst Irlenushp
Their unkeness the charm OF their intercourse
Goethe possessed element OF repoSe that was want
ing In Schiller. At this time the poems OF the DIVER
and the &" Bell" written Schllers styie becomes
sustained and varied musc-the fermentation Is over
have the golden wine cellareu lOr ecfnily' nc
reached his maturity in the drama of Wallenseln i1
1893 he removed Welmar, where he wrote the " MAID
Orleans" In 1906 the Emperor OF Austria bestowed
patent OF nobility upon him. and IN 1872 the treuch e
public elected him An honorary cilZen O1 France fih
last greatest dramatic success was " MHneih
Tell" Much OF the material for this was furnished by
Goethe as the matter OF EvaDgeine was supplied 10
Longfeiow by Hawthorne. Tue lecturer closed with a
description Of the last years OF the Poets me- lie was
dreamlly ardent rather than great his dying Wofus
were: Many things are growing clearer