Torquato Tasso

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Chronology of Goethe’s Life and Times xxxiii
5. Selected Poems 1
6. Egmont 41
7. Iphigenia in Tauris 107
8. Torquato Tasso 163
9. Faust. A Tragedy 249
10. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship 371
11. Italian Journey 751
12. On Literature and Art
13. On German Architecture (1772) 867
14. Shakespeare: A Tribute (1771) 872
15. Simple Imitation, Manner, Style (1789) 875
16. Response to a Literary Rabble- Rouser (1795) 878
17. Winckelmann and His Age (1805) 881
18. Myron’s Cow (1818) 903
19. On World Literature 908
20. On Philosophy and Science
21. On Granite (1784) 913
22. A Study Based on Spinoza (c. 1785) 916
23. The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790) 917
24. Toward a General Comparative Theory (1790– 94) 937
25. The Experiment as Mediator between Subject and Object (1792) 940
26. The Extent to Which the Idea “Beauty Is Perfection in Combination with Freedom” May Be Applied to Living Organisms (c. 1794) 947
27. Observation on Morphology in General (c. 1795) 948
28. Polarity (c. 1799) 951
29. From Theory of Color (1791– 1807) 952
30. Part Five: Relationship to Other Fields 952
31. Part Six: Sensory- Moral Effect of Color 960
32. From On Morphology (1807– 17) 977
33. The Influence of Modern Philosophy (1817) 983
34. Colors in the Sky (1817– 20) 986
35. Problems (1823) 987
36. Excerpt from “Toward a Theory of Weather” (1825) 988
37. Analysis and Synthesis (c. 1829) 993
38. A More Intense Chemical Activity in Primordial Matter (1826) 995
39. Excerpt from “The Spiral Tendency in Vegetation” (1829– 31) 995
40. Selections from Maxims and Reflections 998