The Essential Goethe / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; edited and introduced by 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&#...
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chronology of Goethe's Life and Times; SELECTED POEMS; EGMONT; IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS; TORQUATO TASSO; FAUST. A TRAGEDY; WILHELM MEISTER'S APRENTICESHIP; ITALIAN JOURNEY: PART ONE; 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 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.