A difficult birth with fortunate consequences
A portrait of the young Goethe
Making poetic use of one's own life
My writing has become subordinated to life
More sturm and drang visitors : Klinger and Kaufmann
A farce on the sublime : The triumph of sentimentalism
Should he stay in Weimar?
The Italian journey : no forwarding address
The revolution, this most terrible of all events
Goethe gathers his circle around him
The clogged springs of poetry
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
Faust : the work of a lifetime finished at last
Eckermann and Goethe's other assistants
Final reflection : becoming who you are.