Goethe's literary essays · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. Posthumous Works (_Nachgelassene Werke_, 1833): Tieck’s Dramaturgic Fragments (complete translation). _Troilus and Cressida_ (_Über die Parodie bei den Alten_).
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