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Goethe's literary essays
44 chapters, about 68,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.
Chapters
- GOETHE AS A CRITIC 300 words
- FOREWORD 400 words
- ERVINI A STEINBACH 2,900 words
- INTRODUCTION TO THE _PROPYLÆA_ 2,000 words
- UPON THE LAOCOON 3,800 words
- THE COLLECTOR AND HIS FRIENDS 3,900 words
- ON TRUTH AND PROBABILITY IN WORKS OF ART 1,800 words
- SIMPLE IMITATION OF NATURE, MANNER, STYLE 1,400 words
- ANCIENT AND MODERN 1,700 words
- NOTES ON DILETTANTISM 2,100 words
- THE PRODUCTION OF A NATIONAL CLASSIC[5] 1,400 words
- I (1827) 300 words
- II (1827) 600 words
- III (1828) 300 words
- MORE ABOUT A WORLD LITERATURE 1,100 words
- V 100 words
- ON EPIC AND DRAMATIC POETRY[6] 1,000 words
- SUPPLEMENT TO ARISTOTLE’S _POETICS_[7] 1,100 words
- ON THE GERMAN THEATRE 4,200 words
- LUDWIG TIECK’S _DRAMATURGIC FRAGMENTS_ 900 words
- ON DIDACTIC POETRY 600 words
- SUPERSTITION AND POETRY 200 words
- I (1817) 300 words
- II (1820) 300 words
- I 500 words
- WILHELM MEISTER’S CRITIQUE OF _HAMLET_ 7,300 words
- SHAKESPEARE AD INFINITUM 3,700 words
- FIRST EDITION OF _HAMLET_ 1,100 words
- _TROILUS AND CRESSIDA_ 200 words
- I 400 words
- II 300 words
- BYRON’S _MANFRED_ 700 words
- BYRON’S _DON JUAN_[11] 700 words
- CALDERON’S _DAUGHTER OF THE AIR_ 1,000 words
- MOLIÈRE’S _MISANTHROPE_ 200 words
- OLD GERMAN FOLKSONGS 1,800 words
- FOLKSONGS AGAIN COMMENDED 300 words
- LAURENCE STERNE 300 words
- THE ENGLISH REVIEWERS 300 words
- GERMAN LITERATURE IN GOETHE’S YOUTH 5,500 words
- EXTRACTS FROM THE CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN 9,100 words
- APPENDIX 1,200 words
- Introduction to the Propylæa. 300 words
- INDEX 400 words