"DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG."
Story of the Drama.--A Comedy Faithful to Classical
Conceptions.--_Ridendo Castigat Mores._--Its Specific Purpose
is to Celebrate the Triumph of Natural Poetic
Impulse, Stimulated by Communion with Nature, over
Pedantic Formalism.--Romanticism _versus_ Classicism.--A
Contest which Stimulates Growth.--Walther as
the Representative of Romantic Utterance.--Pedantry
Pictured in the Master-singers and Caricatured in
Beckmesser.--Sachs, the Real Hero of the Play.--An Intermediary
and Champion of Both Parties.--Form must
Adapt Itself to Spirit.--The Proposition Proved by the
Music of Sachs' First Monologue.--The Symbolism of
a Phrase Investigated.--Corrective Purpose of the Play
as it is Disclosed by the Prelude.--Sachs as a Philosopher.--The
Introduction to Act III. Expounded.--Photographic
Pictures of Nuremberg Life.--Relics of
the Master-singers.--A Master-song by the Veritable
Sachs Pages 72-111