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Goethe's literary essays

Chapter 56: INDEX
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A selection of critical essays and conversations in which the author examines principles of art, architecture, poetry, and drama, arguing for close observation, a balance between imitation and invention, and the interplay of truth and probability in representation. The pieces offer methodological reflections on criticism, debates between classical and modern approaches, practical concerns of theatre and acting, and readings of major dramatists alongside commentary on other writers. Dialogues and aphoristic notes further clarify aesthetic concepts such as style, taste, originality, imagination, and the idea of a world literature.

INDEX

  • Anacreon, 239.
  • Aristotle, 104 sq.
  • Arnault, Antoine Vincent, 258.
  • Arnim, Achim von, 213 sq.
  • Blümner, Heinrich, 184.
  • Blum, J. C., 199 sq.
  • Blumauer, Alois, 206.
  • Bodmer, Johann Jakob, 233, 239.
  • Breitinger, Johann Jakob, 231, 233.
  • Brentano, Clemens, 213 sq.
  • Bürger, Gottfried August, 74, 262.
  • Burns, Robert, 262.
  • Byron, 202 sq., 263, 268, 270, 276, 279, 283 sq.
  • Calderon, 208 sq., 251, 269, 273, 276.
  • Carlyle, Thomas, 267 sq., 293.
  • Characteristic art, 11, 37.
  • Chinese literature, 249.
  • Chodowiecki, Daniel Nicolaus, 67.
  • Claudius, Matthias, 74.
  • Cousin, Victor, 97.
  • Criticism, theory of, 134, 140, 224, 230, 276, 283.
  • Diderot, Denys, 138.
  • Drama, and Theatre, 50, 75, 79, 100, 104, 109, 126, 158, 170, 179, 184, 190, 268 sq.
  • Dürer, Albrecht, 13.
  • Erwin von Steinbach, 3, 7, 10, 12.
  • Fabroni, Angelo, 40.
  • Folksongs, 213, 220, 267.
  • Frederick the Great, 241.
  • Fürnstein, Anton, 259.
  • Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott, 232.
  • Gessner, Salomon, 74, 239.
  • Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig, 236, 242, 244.
  • Goldsmith, Oliver, 256.
  • Gottsched, Johann Christoph, 230 sq., 239 sq.
  • Gozzi, Count Carlo, 272.
  • Gries, Johann Dietrich, 210.
  • Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von, 138 sq.
  • Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume, 97.
  • Günther, Johann Christian, 234.
  • Haller, Albrecht von, 235.
  • Hamann, Johann Georg, 14.
  • Handel, Georg Friedrich, 107.
  • Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 14, 262.
  • Hirt, Alois, 36.
  • Homer, 10, 240.
  • Horace, 136, 199 sq., 231, 239 sq.
  • Hugo, Victor, 279 sq.
  • Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm, Baron von, 257.
  • Huysum, Jan van, 62.
  • Iffland, August Wilhelm, 113.
  • Johnson, Samuel, 201.
  • Kant, Immanuel, 257.
  • Kleist, Ewald Christian von, 240 sq.
  • Kleist, Heinrich von, 126.
  • Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 74, 112, 236, 244.
  • König, Johann Ulrich von, 233 sq.
  • Körner, Theodor, 251.
  • Laocoon, 22, 24 sq., 33 sq., 39, 42.
  • Laugier, Marc Antoine, 14.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, 68, 256.
  • Lessing, 38, 112, 232, 236, 244, 257, 269.
  • Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 206.
  • Lichtwer, M. G., 232.
  • Liscow, Christian Ludwig, 228.
  • Lowell, James Russell, 179.
  • Mannerists, 36, 64, 67.
  • Manzoni, Alessandro, 205, 253, 268.
  • Matthisson, Friedrich von, 250.
  • Menander, 275.
  • Mérimeé, Prosper, 278 sq.
  • Michelangelo, 68.
  • Milton, 240.
  • Molière, 212, 269, 272 sq.
  • Napoleon, 252.
  • Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich, 201.
  • Niebuhr, B. G., 293.
  • Novel, the, 170.
  • Oeser, Adam Friedrich, 237.
  • Originality, 255.
  • Perugino, 68.
  • Pindar, 240.
  • Plato, 256.
  • Pope, Alexander, 239, 284.
  • Rabener, Gottlieb Wilhelm, 228 sq.
  • Ramler, Karl Wilhelm, 235 sq., 242.
  • Raphael, 68.
  • Richardson, Samuel, 249.
  • Romanticism, 179, 263, 277.
  • Rubens, 69.
  • Ruysch, Rachel, 62.
  • Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 267.
  • Schiller, 38, 100, 104, 109 sq., 115 sq., 119 sq., 129, 184, 191, 255, 257, 264 sq., 268, 272 sq., 282 sq., 292.
  • Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 257, 269, 276 sq.
  • Schlegel, Friedrich von, 257, 269.
  • Schlegel, Johann Elias, 239.
  • Schroeder, Friedrich Ludwig, 124, 188 sq.
  • Schubarth, Karl Ernst, 65.
  • Scott, Sir Walter, 286 sq.
  • Seylerin (i.e., Sophie Friedrike Seyler), 118.
  • Shakespeare, 65 sq., 124, 127, 136, 145 sq., 171 sq., 181 sq., 200 sq., 204, 209 sq., 225, 238, 254, 256, 268 sq., 272, 275, 284.
  • Steevens, George, 193.
  • Sterne, Laurence, 222, 256.
  • Style, 61, 265.
  • Sulzer, J. G., 200 sq.
  • Taschereau, J., 212.
  • Theatre, see Drama.
  • Thomson, James, 252.
  • Tieck, Ludwig, 126 sq.
  • Uvaroff, Count, 137.
  • Villemain, Abel François, 97.
  • Virgil, 34 sq., 240.
  • Voss, Johann Heinrich, 262.
  • Wieland, Christoph Martin, 74, 86, 164, 236 sq., 292.
  • Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 38, 257.
  • World Literature, 89 sq., 267.