Note 1 — From ‘Laokoon,’ Chapter 16.
Reading edition
First Collection (1767); see Suphan’s edition of Herder’s works, Vol. I, page 152.
2. In his Kritische Wälder (1769) Herder subjected Lessing’s Laokoon to a searching criticism. The passages here given—see Suphan’s edition, Vol. 3, pages 139 ff.—are addressed to the theory advanced in the last of the foregoing selections from Lessing.
3. Auszug aus einem Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker was published in 1773, as part of a collection of papers (by Herder, Goethe and Möser) entitled Von deutscher Art und Kunst. See Suphan’s Herder, Vol. 5, page 155.
4. Published in the aforementioned collection Von deutscher Art und Kunst (1773). See Suphan’s Herder, Vol. 5, page 208.
5. The booklet Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit was published in 1774. See Suphan’s Herder, Vol. 5, page 475.