Goethe's literary essays : $b A selection in EnglishGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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Goethe's literary essays : $b A selection in English
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Art; Literature -- History and criticism
Simple Imitation of Nature, Manner, Style (_Über Italien: Einfache
Nachahmung der Natur, Manier, Stil_, complete translation).
1794-1805. Correspondence of Goethe and Schiller:
Epic and Dramatic Poetry (complete translation); also footnote on
page 104.
1795-96. _Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre_:
Wilhelm Meister’s Critique of _Hamlet_.
1795-97. Articles in _Die Horen_:
The Production of a National Classic (_Literarischer
Sansculottismus_, complete translation except for four introductory
paragraphs).
1798-1800. Articles in _Die Propyläen_:
Introduction to the Propylæa.
On Laocoon (complete translation).
On Truth and Probability in Works of Art (complete translation).
The Collector and his Friends.
Notes on Dillettantism. (By Goethe and Schiller).
1804 sq. Reviews in the _Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung_:
Old German Folksongs (review of _Des Knaben Wunderhorn_, translated
in full except that only a few of Goethe’s characterizations of
individual poems are included).
1811-14. _Dichtung und Wahrheit_ (Autobiography):
German Literature in Goethe’s Youth (selected passages from part
ii, book 7); also footnote on page 14 (from part ii, book 10).
1815 sq. Articles in the _Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände_:
Shakespeare ad Infinitum, parts i-ii, written 1813 (_Shakespeare
und kein Ende_, complete translation).
On the German Theatre (complete translation).
1816-32. Articles in _Über Kunst und Alterthum_:
Ancient and Modern.
The Theory of a World Literature, part i (review of Duval’s _Le
Tasse_), part ii (_Bezüge nach Aussen_, complete translation),
part iii (_Edinburgh Reviews_), part v (review of Carlyle’s _Leben
Schillers_).
Supplement to Aristotle’s _Poetics_ (complete translation).
On Didactic Poetry (complete translation).
Superstition and Poetry (_Justus Möser_).
The Methods of French Critics (_Urteilsworte französischer
Kritiker_, complete translation).
On Criticism, § 1 (review of Manzoni’s _Carmagnola_), § 3 (review
of Rochlitz’s _Für Freunde der Tonkunst_).
The First Edition of _Hamlet_ (complete translation).
Byron’s _Manfred_ (complete translation).
Byron’s _Don Juan_ (complete translation).
Calderon’s _Daughter of the Air_ (complete translation).
Molière’s _Misanthrope_ (review of Taschereau’s _Histoire de la Vie
et des Ouvrages de Molière_, complete translation).
Shakespeare ad Infinitum, part iii, written 1816, published 1826
(complete translation).
Folksongs again Commended (complete translation).
Laurence Sterne (complete translation).
The English Reviewers (review of Manzoni’s _Carmagnola_).
1822-32. _Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens_,
by J. P. Eckermann (published 1836-48):
Extracts from Goethe’s Conversations with Eckermann.
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