LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF GOETHE,
WITH THE DATES OF THEIR COMPOSITION.
I. DRAMATIC WORKS.
TITLE AND DESCRIPTION. DATE,
The Lover's Whim, Pastoral Drama.................. 1767-8
The Accomplices, Comedy........................... 1769
Satyros, or the Deified Satyr, Drama.............. 1774
Plundersweilern Fair, Puppet-show................. 1774
Prometheus, Dramatic fragment..................... 1773
Faust. Part I. Tragedy............................ 1773-1806
Part II. Tragedy completed in.............. 1831
Elpenor, a Fragment, Tragedy...................... 1781-3
Iphigenia auf Tauris, Classical drama............. 1786-7
Torquato Tasso, Classical drama................... 1787-9
The Natural Daughter, Tragedy..................... 1799-1803
Gotz von Berlichingen, Prose drama................ 1773
Egmont, Tragedy................................... 1775-87
Clavigo, Tragedy.................................. 1774
Stella, Tragedy................................... 1774
The Brother and Sister, Prose drama............... 1776
The Wager, Comedy................................. 1812
The Gross-Cophta, Comedy.......................... 1789
The Burgher-General, Comedy....................... 1793
The Rebels, Political drama....................... 1793
The Triumph of Sensibility, Dramatic whim......... 1777
The Birds, after Aristophanes, Comedy............. 1780
Erwin and Elmire, Melodrama....................... 1775-88
Claudine von Villa Bella, Melodrama............... 1775-88
Jery and Bately, Melodrama........................ 1779
Lila, Melodrama................................... 1777-8
The Fisher-Girl, Melodrama........................ 1782
Sport. Cunning, and Revenge, Opera Buffa.......... 1785
What we're bringing, Prelude...................... 1802
Pandora, Drama.................................... 1807-8
In addition to the above, there are nearly 20 minor dramatic
pieces.
II. PROSE WORKS.
TITLE DATE,
ROMANCES AND NOVELS:--
Sorrows of Werther............................. 1774
The Elective Affinities........................ 1809
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship............... 1777-96
Wilhelm Meister's Wanderings................... 1807-29
Conversations of German Emigrants.............. 1793-5
Notes on Winckelmann.............................. 1805
Life of Philip Hackert............................ 1810-11
Life of Benvenuto Cellini (Translation)........... 1796-1803
Autobiography..................................... 1811-31
Letters from Switzerland.......................... 1775-1808
Tour in Italy..................................... 1786-1817
French Campaign................................... 1792-1822
Annals............................................ 1819-25
Art and Antiquity................................. 1815-28
Theory of Colours................................. 1790-1810
In addition to the above, Goethe produced an almost endless
number of translations, criticisms, essays, &c.
III. POETICAL WORKS.
Other than those embraced in the plan of the present volume.
TITLE DATE,
Masonic Songs (7)................................. 1815-30
Poems on Pictures (21)............................ 1819, &c.
Invectives (44)................................... 1802-24
Political poems (54).............................. 1814, &c.
Masques (14)...................................... 1776-1818
Poems in the name of the citizens of Carlsbad (7). 1810-12
Poems on Individuals, &c. (209)................... 1778-1831
Chinese-German Poems (14)......................... 1827
Prophecies of Bakis (33).......................... 1798
The Four Seasons (99)............................. 1796
Epistles (3)...................................... 1794
Achilleis--Canto I................................ 1798-9
Reineke Fuchs..................................... 1793
Theatrical Prologues and Epilogues (12, including
the Epilogue to the Song of the Bell, given in
this volume)................................... 1782-1821