Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Works
[edit]- The Works of J. W. von Goethe (14 volumes)
Dramas
[edit]- Egmont
- Faust
- Translated in the Collected Works (various translators) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
- Translated by Bayard Taylor (external scan)
- "Duet" (extract) translated by John Oxenford (1835) (external scan)
- Götz von Berlichingen
- Iphigenia in Tauris English trans. by Wm. Taylor
- Torquato Tasso
- The Fellow Culprits
Poems
[edit]A Night Thought • A Parable • A Plan the Muses Entertained • A Symbol • Admonition • After-Sensations • Alexis and Dora • Anacreon's Grave • Anniversary Song • Another • Answers in a Game of Questions • Apparent Death • April • As Broad as It's Long • At Midnight Hour • Authors • Autumn Feelings • Ballad • Before a Court of Justice • Blindman's Buff (Blinde Kuh) • Burial • By the River ("Flow on, ye lays so loved, so fair") • By the River ("When by the broad stream thou dost dwell") • Calm at Sea • Cat-Pie • Celebrity • Charade • Christel • Comfort in Tears • Constancy in Change • Coptic Song • Courage • Death Lament of the Noble Wife of Asan Aga • Declaration of War • Dedication • Delight of Sorrow • Departure • Depression • Different Emotions on the Same Spot • Different Threats • Distichs • Early Spring • Effect at a Distance • Epilogue to Schiller's "Song of the Bell" • Epiphanias • Epitaph • Ergo Bibamus! • Evening • Ever and Everywhere • Exculpation • Explanation of an Ancient Woodcut, Representing Hans Sachs's Poetical Mission • Explanation of an Antique Gem • Faithful Eckart • Farewell • Finnish Song • First Loss • Flower-Salute • Food in Travel • For Ever • Fortune of War • Found (Gefunden) • From "The Sorrows of Young Werther" • From an Album of 1604 • From Egmont • From Faust • From Faust—Second Part • From Götz Von Berlichingen • From the Mountain • From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship • Ganymede • General Confession • Genial Impulse • God, Soul and World • Growth • Gypsy Song • Hartz Mountains • Holy Family • Human Feelings • Huntsman's Evening Song • Idyll • Ilm, the River, to the Moon • In a Word • In Absence • In Summer • Johanna Sebus • Joy • Joy and Sorrow • June • Legend • L'Envoi • Leopold, Duke of Brunswick • Like and Like • Lili's Menagerie • Limits of Humanity • Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull • Living Remembrance • Longing • Love as a Landscape Painter • Lover in All Shapes • Love's Distresses • Love's Dream • Love's Hour-Glass • Mahomet's Song • Maiden Wishes • March • Marriage Unequal • May • May Song ("Between wheat-field and corn") • May Song ("How gloriously gleameth all nature to me!"; also published in translation under the title Mayfest) • Memento (Erinnerung) • Mignon • Mischievous Joy • Morning Lament • Motives • My Goddess • My Only Property • Neither This nor That • Nemesis • New Love, New Life • Next Year's Spring • Night Song • November Song • Old Age • On the Divan • On the Lake • On the New Year • Open Table • Paulo Post Futuri • Perfect Bliss • Petition • Philine's Song • Philomena • Phoebus and Hermes • Phooemion • Playing at Priests • Poetry • Presence • Prometheus • Proverbs ("A breach is every day") • Proverbs ("A thousand flies did I at even slay") • Proximity • Psyche • Reciprocal • Reciprocal Invitation to the Dance • Religion and Church • Reservation • Resolve • Restless Love • Rinaldo • Rollicking Hans • Roman Elegies (Erotica Romana) • Royal Prayer • Rule for Monarchs • Sakontala • Second Life • Self-Deceit • Separation • She Cannot End • Should E'er the Loveless Day • Sicilian Song • Sir Curt's Wedding Journey • Smitten • Solitude • Song of Fellowship • Song of the Fates • Song of the Spirits over the Waters • Songs • Sorrow Without Consolation • Sound, Sweet Song • Spirit Greeting • Such, Such is He Who Pleaseth Me • Swiss Song • Symbols • Table Song • Tame Xenia • The Artist's Morning Song • The Beauteous Flower • The Best • The Bliss of Absence • The Breeze • The Bride of Corinth • The Bridegroom • The Brothers • The Buyers • The Castle on the Mountain • The Cavalier's Choice • The Chinaman in Rome • The Chosen Rock • The Christmas-Box • The Church Window • The Consecrated Spot • The Coquette • The Country Schoolmaster • The Critic • The Dance of the Dead • The Death of the Fly • The Destruction of Magdeburg • The Dilettante and the Critic • The Doubters and the Lovers • The Drops of Nectar • The Eagle and the Dove • The Epochs • The Erl-King (Der Erlkönig; also translated as The Alder King) • The Exchange • The Faithless Boy • The Farewell • The First Walpurgis-Night • The Fisherman • The Fool's Epilogue • The Fox and Crane • The Fox and the Huntsman • The Freebooter • The Friendly Meeting • The Frogs • The German Parnassus • The Goblet • The God and the Bayadere • The Godlike • The Goldsmith's Apprentice • The Happy Couple • The Husbandman • The Joys (Die Freuden) • The King of Thule • The Legend of the Horseshoe • The Lovely Night • The Loving One Once More • The Loving One Writes • The Magic Net • The Maid of the Mill's Repentance • The Maid of the Mill's Treachery • The Maiden Speaks • The Metamorphosis of Plants • The Minstrel • The Misanthrope • The Modern Amadis • The Mountain Village • The Musagetes • The Muses' Mirror • The Muses' Son • The New Love • The Page and the Miller's Daughter • The Pariah • The Park • The Parting • The Prosperous Voyage • The Rat-Catcher • The Reckoning • The Rule of Life • The Same, Expanded • The Screaming (Das Schreien) • The Sea-Voyage • The Shepherd's Lament • The Soldier's Consolation • The Sorcerer's Apprentice (also known as The Pupil in Magic) • The Spinner • The Spring Oracle • The Stork's Vocation • The Teachers • The Traveller and the Farm Maiden • The Treasure-Seeker • The Violet • The Visit • The Walking Bell • The Wanderer • The Wanderer's Storm-Song • The Warning • The Water-Man • The Way to Behave • The Wedding • The Wedding Night • The Wild Rose • The Wrangler • The Wreaths • The Yelpers • The Youth and the Mill-Stream • Threatening Signs • Three Palinodias • To a Golden Heart He Was Wearing on His Neck • To Belinda • To Charlotte • To Father Kronos • To His Coy One • To Lida • To Lina • To Luna • To Mignon • To My Friend • To My Mistress • To Originals • To the Chosen One • To the Distant One • To the Grasshopper • To the Kind Reader • To the Rising Full Moon • Treasure Trove • Trilogy of Passion (including the famous Marienbad Elegy (Marienbader Elegie)) • True Enjoyment • Valediction • Vanitas, Vanitatum Vanitas • Venetian Epigrams • Wanderer's Night-Song • Warning • Wedding Song • Welcome and Departure • When the Fox Dies His Skin Counts • Who'll Buy Cupid? • With a Golden Necklace • With an Embroidered Ribbon • Wont and Done
Long poems, epics and structured collections
[edit]Novels and short stories
[edit]- Elective Affinities
- Novelle
- The Good Women
- The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily
- The New Paris (transcription project)
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
- Wilhelm Meister's Travels
Scientific works
[edit]Autobiographical
[edit]- Italian Journey
- From my Life: Poetry and Truth
- Letters from Switzerland
- The autobiography of Goethe: truth and fiction relating to my life (1882), edited by John Oxenford
Works about Goethe
[edit]- "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Goethe," by Oscar Browning in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 10) (1879)
- "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von," by Benjamin Willis Wells in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1906)
- "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von," by Walter Alison Phillips in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von," by Calvin Thomas in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
- The Baron von Goethe in The Maclise Portrait-Gallery
- "Goethe; or, the Writer" in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850)
On his works
[edit]- "Poetry and Truth," by Ewald Eiserhardt in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Sorrows of Young Werther, The," by Ewald Eiserhardt in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Egmont," by William G. Howard in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors I" by in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (June 1880)
- "Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors II" by in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (July 1880)
- "Faust (Goethe)," by William G. Howard in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Hermann und Dorothea," by Ewald Eiserhardt in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Iphigenia in Tauris," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Wahlverwandtschaften," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Elective Affinities, The," by William G. Howard in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Wilhelm Meister," by Ewald Eiserhardt in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Other related works
[edit]- To Goethe, a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche
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