He was a German writer and statesman. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.
This collection includes the following:
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1794)
Elective Affinities (1809)
Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years (1821)
The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795)
A Tale (1797)
The Good Women (1797)
The Wayward Lover (1768)
The Fellow Culprits (1769)
Goetz von Berlichingen (1773)
Clavigo (1774)
Egmont (1788)
The Brother and Sister (1776)
Stella (1776)
Iphigenia in Tauris (1779)
Torquato Tasso (1790)
The Natural Daughter (1803)
Faust: Part One (1808)
Faust: Part Two (1832)
The Poems of Goethe
Reynard the Fox (1794)
The Siege of Mainz (1793)
Theory of Colours (1810)
Introduction to ‘The Propyläen’ (1798)
Winckelmann and His Age (1805)
The Travel Writing
Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy (1816)
The Criticism
Goethe the Writer by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goethe by C. E. Vaughan
Goethe by John Cowper Powys
Goethe’s Faust by George Santayana
Shakespeare and Goethe by David Masson
Goethe’s Theory of Colors by John Tyndall
Extracts of Correspondence by Sir Walter Scott
The Autobiography
Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life (1811)
The Biographies
Conversations with Goethe (1836) by Johann Peter Eckermann
The Life of Goethe by Calvin Thomas (1886)
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe by James Sime (1888)