II On the Chronology of Goethe’s Critical Studies
The following chronology of Goethe’s critical activity is intended chiefly to indicate the original sources of the selections in the present volume.
1772-73. Reviews in the Frankfurter gelehrten Anzeigen:
Goethe as a Young Reviewer (reviews of Blum’s Lyrische Gedichte, and Sulzer’s Cymbelline, ein Trauerspiel, nach einem von Shakespeare erfundnen Stoffe, both translated in full).
1773. Von deutscher Baukunst:
On German Architecture (complete translation).
1788 sq. Articles in Wieland’s Teutscher Merkur:
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.
Posthumous Works (Nachgelassene Werke, 1833):
Tieck’s Dramaturgic Fragments (complete translation).
Troilus and Cressida (Über die Parodie bei den Alten).