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Fox and Huntsman?The Frogs?The Wedding?Burial?Threatening Signs?The Buyers?The Mountain Village?Symbols?Three Palinodias :--
I. The Smoke that from thine Altar blows.
II. Conflict of Wit and Beauty?III. Rain and Rainbow.?Valediction?The Country Schoolmaster?The Legend of the Horseshoe?A Symbol
ART.?The Drops of Nectar?The Wanderer?I Love as a Landscape Painter
GOD, SOUL, AND WORLD.?Rhymed Distichs?Prooemion?The Metamorphosis of Plants
PROVERBS?TAME XENIA
RELIGION AND CHURCH.?Thoughts on Jesus Christ's descent into Hell
ANTIQUES.?Leopold, Duke of Brunswick?To the Husbandman?Anacreon's Grave?The Brethren?Measure of Time?Warning?Solitude?The Chosen Cliff?The Consecrated Spot?The Instructors?The Unequal Marriage.?Excuse?Sakontala?The Muse's Mirror?Phoebus and Hermes?The New Amor?The Garlands?The Swiss Alps?Distichs
VENETIAN EPIGRAMS.
ELEGIES.?Roman Elegies?Alexis and Dora?Hermann and Dorothea
WEST-EASTERN DIVAN.
I. Minstrel's Book :--
Talismans?The Four Favours?Discord?Song and Structure
II. Book of Hafis :--?The Unlimited?To Hafis
III. Book of Love :--
The Types?One Pair More?Love's Torments
IV. Book of Contemplation :--
Five Things?For Woman?Firdusi?Suleika
V. Book of Gloom :--?It is a Fault
VI. Book of Proverbs
VII. Book of Timur :--
The Winter and Timur?To Suleika
VIII. Book of Suleika :--
Suleika's Love?Hatem?Suleika?Love for Love?Hatem?The Loving One speaks?The Loving One again?These tufted Branches fair?Suleika?The Sublime Type?Suleika?The Reunion?Suleika?In thousand forms
IX. The Convivial Book :--
Can the Koran from Eternity be??Ye've often for our Drunkenness
X. Book of Parables :--
From Heaven there fell upon the foaming wave?Bulbul's Song?In the Koran with strange delight.?All kinds of Men.?It is good
XI. Book of the Parsees :--
The Bequest of the ancient Persian faith
XII. Book of Paradise:?The Privileged Men?The favoured Beasts?The Seven Sleepers
SONGS FROM VARIOUS PLAYS, ETC.?From Faust :--
Dedication
Prologue in Heaven
Chorus of Angels
Chorus of Spirits
Margaret at her Spinning Wheel
Garden Scene
Margaret's Song?From Faust?Part II.:--
Ariel's Song and Chorus of Spirits
Scene the last?From Iphigenia in Tauris :--
Song of the Fates?From Gotz von Berlichingen :--
Liebetraut's Song?From Egmont :--
Clara and Brackenburg's Song
Clara's Song?From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship :--
Who never eat with tears his bread
Who gives himself to Solitude
My Grief no Mortals know
Sing no more in mournful tones
Epilogue to Schiller's Song of the Bell
L'ENVOI
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
THE POEMS OF GOETHE.
DEDICATION.
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared
The gentle sleep that round my senses clung,?And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,
And up the mountain