Modern History
Goethe's literary essays
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · narrated by Moss
2026
9h 32m
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Goethe, the towering figure of German letters, reflects on Shakespeare, world literature and the craft of writing itself. These essays gather the critical mind that helped define Romanticism and coined the very idea of Weltliteratur. Essential listening for anyone tracing how modern Europe learned to think about books.
Inside this audiobook
30 chapters
- 1FOREWORD6m
- 2THE THEORY OF ART25m
- 3INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPYLÆA15m
- 4UPON THE LAOCOON29m
- 5THE COLLECTOR AND HIS FRIENDS31m
- 6ON TRUTH AND PROBABILITY IN WORKS OF ART15m
- 7SIMPLE IMITATION OF NATURE, MANNER, STYLE11m
- 8ANCIENT AND MODERN13m
- 9NOTES ON DILETTANTISM19m
- 10THE PRODUCTION OF A NATIONAL CLASSIC[5]11m
- 11GOETHE’S THEORY OF A WORLD LITERATURE21m
- 12ON EPIC AND DRAMATIC POETRY[6]8m
- 13SUPPLEMENT TO ARISTOTLE’S POETICS[7]10m
- 14ON THE GERMAN THEATRE33m
- 15LUDWIG TIECK’S DRAMATURGIC FRAGMENTS7m
- 16ON DIDACTIC POETRY5m
- 17THE METHODS OF FRENCH CRITICISM14m
- 18ON CRITICISM4m
- 19WILHELM MEISTER’S CRITIQUE OF HAMLET1h 2m
- 20SHAKESPEARE AD INFINITUM35m
- 21FIRST EDITION OF HAMLET9m
- 22GOETHE AS A YOUNG REVIEWER8m
- 23BYRON’S MANFRED6m
- 24BYRON’S DON JUAN[11]6m
- 25CALDERON’S DAUGHTER OF THE AIR7m
- 26OLD GERMAN FOLKSONGS16m
- 27FOLKSONGS AGAIN COMMENDED5m
- 28GERMAN LITERATURE IN GOETHE’S YOUTH46m
- 29EXTRACTS FROM THE CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN1h 22m
- 30APPENDIX15m
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