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Goethe’s Literary Essays

Goethe’s Literary Essays

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Author
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Title
Goethe's literary essays : A selection in English
Original Publication
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1921.
Credits
Carla Foust, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject
Art
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 76103
Release Date
May 16, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.GOETHE’S LITERARY ESSAYS
  3. 3.GOETHE AS A CRITIC
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.FOREWORD
  7. 7.CONTENTS
  8. 8.THE THEORY OF ART
  9. 9.ON GERMAN ARCHITECTURE — FOOTNOTES:
  10. 10.INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPYLÆA
  11. 11.UPON THE LAOCOON
  12. 12.THE COLLECTOR AND HIS FRIENDS — FOOTNOTES:
  13. 13.ON TRUTH AND PROBABILITY IN WORKS OF ART
  14. 14.SIMPLE IMITATION OF NATURE, MANNER, STYLE
  15. 15.ANCIENT AND MODERN
  16. 16.NOTES ON DILETTANTISM
  17. 17.THE THEORY OF LITERATURE
  18. 18.THE PRODUCTION OF A NATIONAL CLASSIC [5] — FOOTNOTES:
  19. 19.GOETHE’S THEORY OF A WORLD LITERATURE
  20. 20.ON EPIC AND DRAMATIC POETRY [6] — FOOTNOTES:
  21. 21.SUPPLEMENT TO ARISTOTLE’S POETICS [7] — FOOTNOTES:
  22. 22.ON THE GERMAN THEATRE
  23. 23.LUDWIG TIECK’S DRAMATURGIC FRAGMENTS
  24. 24.ON DIDACTIC POETRY
  25. 25.SUPERSTITION AND POETRY
  26. 26.THE METHODS OF FRENCH CRITICISM
  27. 27.ON CRITICISM
  28. 28.ON SHAKESPEARE
  29. 29.WILHELM MEISTER’S CRITIQUE OF HAMLET
  30. 30.SHAKESPEARE AD INFINITUM — FOOTNOTES:
  31. 31.FIRST EDITION OF HAMLET
  32. 32.TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
  33. 33.ON OTHER WRITERS
  34. 34.GOETHE AS A YOUNG REVIEWER — FOOTNOTES:
  35. 35.BYRON’S MANFRED — FOOTNOTES:
  36. 36.BYRON’S DON JUAN [11] — FOOTNOTES:
  37. 37.CALDERON’S DAUGHTER OF THE AIR
  38. 38.MOLIÈRE’S MISANTHROPE
  39. 39.OLD GERMAN FOLKSONGS
  40. 40.FOLKSONGS AGAIN COMMENDED
  41. 41.LAURENCE STERNE
  42. 42.THE ENGLISH REVIEWERS
  43. 43.GERMAN LITERATURE IN GOETHE’S YOUTH — FOOTNOTES:
  44. 44.EXTRACTS FROM GOETHE’S CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN
  45. 45.EXTRACTS FROM THE CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN — FOOTNOTES:
  46. 46.APPENDIX
  47. 47.APPENDIX
  48. 48.INDEX
  49. 49.INDEX
  50. 50.Transcriber’s note

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