Goethe's literary essays
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1. GOETHE AS A CRITIC2. FOREWORD3. ON GERMAN ARCHITECTURE4. INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPYLÆA5. UPON THE LAOCOON6. THE COLLECTOR AND HIS FRIENDS7. ON TRUTH AND PROBABILITY IN WORKS OF ART8. SIMPLE IMITATION OF NATURE, MANNER, STYLE9. ANCIENT AND MODERN10. NOTES ON DILETTANTISM11. THE PRODUCTION OF A NATIONAL CLASSIC[5]12. GOETHE’S THEORY OF A WORLD LITERATURE13. ON EPIC AND DRAMATIC POETRY[6]14. SUPPLEMENT TO ARISTOTLE’S POETICS[7]15. ON THE GERMAN THEATRE16. LUDWIG TIECK’S DRAMATURGIC FRAGMENTS17. ON DIDACTIC POETRY18. SUPERSTITION AND POETRY19. THE METHODS OF FRENCH CRITICISM20. ON CRITICISM21. WILHELM MEISTER’S CRITIQUE OF HAMLET22. SHAKESPEARE AD INFINITUM23. FIRST EDITION OF HAMLET24. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA25. GOETHE AS A YOUNG REVIEWER26. BYRON’S MANFRED27. BYRON’S DON JUAN[11]28. CALDERON’S DAUGHTER OF THE AIR29. MOLIÈRE’S MISANTHROPE30. OLD GERMAN FOLKSONGS31. FOLKSONGS AGAIN COMMENDED32. LAURENCE STERNE33. THE ENGLISH REVIEWERS34. GERMAN LITERATURE IN GOETHE’S YOUTH35. EXTRACTS FROM THE CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN36. APPENDIX37. APPENDIX38. INDEX