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Goethe’s Literary Essays

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  1. 1Foreword — By Viscount Haldane
  2. 2The Theory of Art on German Architecture — Von Deutscher Baukunst D…
  3. 3Introduction to the Propylæa
  4. 4Upon the Laocoon
  5. 5The Collector and His Friends
  6. 6On Truth and Probability in Works of Art — A Dialogue
  7. 7Simple Imitation of Nature, Manner, Style
  8. 8Simple Imitation of Nature
  9. 9Manner
  10. 10Style
  11. 11Ancient and Modern
  12. 12Notes on Dilettantism
  13. 13Dilettantism in Lyrical Poetry
  14. 14Dilettantism in Pragmatic Poetry
  15. 15Dilettantism in Dramatic Art
  16. 16Advantages of Dilettantism in General
  17. 17In Lyrical Poetry
  18. 18In the Dramatic Art
  19. 19Disadvantage of Dilettantism in General
  20. 20In Lyrical Poetry
  21. 21In Pragmatical Poetry
  22. 22In Histrionic Art
  23. 23The Theory of Literature — The Production of a National Classic (Li…
  24. 24Goethe’s Theory of a World Literature
  25. 25II — (1827)
  26. 26III — (1828)
  27. 27IV (1829) — More About a World Literature
  28. 28The Encouragements
  29. 29Other Considerations
  30. 30V
  31. 31On Epic and Dramatic Poetry
  32. 32Supplement to Aristotle’s Poetics
  33. 33On the German Theatre
  34. 34A Plan of Schiller’s, and What Came of It
  35. 35Egmont
  36. 36(Second Act)
  37. 37(Third Act)
  38. 38(Fourth Act)
  39. 39(Fifth Act)
  40. 40Goetz von Berlichingen
  41. 41(Second Act)
  42. 42(Third Act)
  43. 43(Fourth Act)
  44. 44(Fifth Act)
  45. 45Ludwig Tieck’s Dramaturgic Fragments
  46. 46On Didactic Poetry
  47. 47Superstition and Poetry
  48. 48The Methods of French Criticism
  49. 49II — (1820)
  50. 50On Criticism (1821-24)
  51. 51II
  52. 52III
  53. 53IV
  54. 54On Shakespeare — Wilhelm Meister’s Critique of Hamlet
  55. 55Shakespeare AD Infinitum
  56. 56I — Shakespeare as Poet in General
  57. 57II — Shakespeare Compared With the Ancients and the Moderns
  58. 58III — Shakespeare as Playwright
  59. 59First Edition of Hamlet
  60. 60Troilus and Cressida
  61. 61On Other Writers — I
  62. 62II
  63. 63Byron’s Manfred
  64. 64Byron’s Don Juan
  65. 65Calderon’s Daughter of the Air
  66. 66Molière’s Misanthrope
  67. 67Old German Folksongs
  68. 68Folksongs Again Commended
  69. 69Laurence Sterne
  70. 70The English Reviewers
  71. 71German Literature in Goethe’s Youth (1811-14)
  72. 72Extracts From Goethe’s Conversations With Eckermann — Extracts From…
  73. 73Poetry and Patriotism
  74. 74Poetry and History
  75. 75Originality
  76. 76Personality in Art
  77. 77The Subject-Matter of Poetry
  78. 78The Influence of Environment
  79. 79Culture and Morals
  80. 80Classic and Romantic
  81. 81Taste
  82. 82Style
  83. 83Intellect and Imagination
  84. 84Definition of Poetry — Definition of Beauty
  85. 85Architecture and Music
  86. 86Primitive Poetry
  87. 87Weltliteratur
  88. 88French Critics
  89. 89The Construction of a Good Play
  90. 90Dramatic Unities
  91. 91The Theatre
  92. 92Acting
  93. 93Dramatic Situations — Management of the Theatre
  94. 94Menander
  95. 95Calderon
  96. 96Molière
  97. 97Shakespeare
  98. 98A. W. Schlegel’s Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
  99. 99The French Romanticists
  100. 100Victor Hugo
  101. 101The “Idea” of Goethe’s Tasso and Faust
  102. 102Schiller
  103. 103Edinburgh Review
  104. 104Byron
  105. 105Scott
  106. 106Appendix — Appendix
  107. 107II — On the Chronology of Goethe’s Critical Studies

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