The Essential Goethe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Bell, Matthew, 1964- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the German.
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016[.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chronology of Goethe's life and times
  • Selected poems
  • Egmont / translated by Michael Hamburger
  • Iphigenia in Tauris / translated by David Luke
  • Torquato Tasso / translated by Michael Hamburger
  • Faust. A tragedy / translated by John R. Williams
  • Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship
  • Italian Journey: part one
  • On German architecture (1772)
  • Shakespeare: a tribute (1771)
  • Simple imitation, manner, style (1789)
  • Response to a literary rabble-rouser (1795)
  • Winckelmann and his age (1805)
  • Myron's cow (1818)
  • On world literature
  • On granite (1784)
  • A study based on Spinoza (c. 1785)
  • The metamorphosis of plants (1790)
  • Toward a general comparative theory (1790-94)
  • The experiment as mediator between subject and object (1792)
  • The extent to which the idea "beauty is perfection in combination with freedom" may be applied to living organisms (c. 1794)
  • Observation on morphology in general (c. 1795)
  • Polarity (c. 1799)
  • From Theory of color (1791-1807). Part five: relationship to other fields ; Part six: sensory-moral effect of color
  • From On morphology (1807-17). The enterprise justified ; The purpose set forth ; The content prefaced
  • The influence of modern philosophy (1817)
  • Colors in the sky (1817-20)
  • Problems (1823)
  • Excerpt from Toward a theory of weather (1825)
  • Analysis and synthesis (c. 1829)
  • A more intense chemical activity in primordial matter (1826)
  • Excerpt from The spiral tendency in vegetation (1829-31)
  • Selections from Maxims and reflections.