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tone is in this respect alone departed from , that a more earnest and pure philosophy tempers the participation of the gods in the incidents that are about to take place below . Of all Goethe ' s unexecuted works , the loss of this we regret the most . It appears from the correspondence between him and Schiller , of which six volumes have appeared , that a very favourite subject of
speculation m Goethe ' s mind was the relative fitness of any given subject for the epos or the drama . Schlegel judiciously applies to the epic poem , what Goethe , in his * Wilhelm Meister , * so srgnificantly says of the romance in comparison with the tragedy , —the romance having a close analogy with the epos . In the romance sentiments and incidents ( gesinnungen und begebenkeiten ) are to be represented , in the drama , characters and actions . In the
romance accident ( zufall ) may take part : on the other hand ,, it is only in the drama that fate ( schicksal ) is to interpose / These few words throw light oh the modern German poetics , of which the Schlegels have been the legislators , while Goethe has supplied the models . The collection closes , with what probably by some accident had been mislaid . It is the commencement of one of those
metaphysical or allegorical dramas for which the most ancient Greek Mythos furnishes an appropriate field . It is entitled ' Pandora , and the sons of Japetus , and other mystic personages , are put in action , but the drama does not proceed far enough to render the drift apparent . *
? Though we have purposely abstained from saying any thing of Goethe ' s scientific writings , yet we might be justly reproached did we not add a list of them . They are not included in the collection of his works—Essay on the Metamorphoses of Plants , 1790 . Contributions to Optics , 1791-2 , two vols . 8 vo . Ideas on Organic Structure , \ bildung ^\ 1807 . On the Mountains of Carlsbad , 1807 . Zur farbenlehie , ( On Chromatics , ) 2 vols . 1810 , with plates . The Heights of the Ancient and Modern World , 1813 . On Natural Philosophy in genera ) , especially on Morphology , &c . 2 vols . P . S . Since the above note was in the Press , we have received the publisher ' s
advertisement concerning Goethe ' s posthumous works , which we abridge to render Our catalogue complete . They are to form fifteen volumes , of which we believe tho first five have just appeared . Vol . 1 ' The second part of Faust , in five acts . 2 . Gottfried v . Berlichiugen and Got * v . Eerlichingen , adapted to the stage . 3 . Swiss Journey , 1797 , and Journey by the Rhine and Main , 1814 . 4 . Miscellaneous Essays on Art . 5 . Dramatic and German Literature .
6 . Poems . 7 . From my Life , Fiction and Truth , 4 th part , comprehending 1774 , 1775 . 8 . Ancient Grecian , and Modern English and French and Foreign Folk ' s . Poene , ( Poetry for th « People . ) 9 . Maxims and Reflections on the World , the State , and Literature .
10 . Essays on Natural Philosophy in general , 11 . The earlier and latest on Botany and Osteology . 12 . Mineralogy , Geology , * and Meteorology . 13 . 1 ( Theoretical part ] 14 . > ChfomaticsJ Historical part > recomposed aud completed . 15 . 1 I Polemical part I
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284 Goethe ' s Works .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/68/
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