The Essential Goethe / / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Matthew Bell.

The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethe's...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 1 halftone. 1 table.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chronology of Goethe's Life and Times
  • Selected Poems
  • Egmont
  • Iphigenia in Tauris
  • Torquato Tasso
  • Faust. A Tragedy
  • Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
  • Italian Journey
  • On Literature and Art
  • 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 Philosophy and Science
  • 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 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