The following is a list of the major publications of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). 142 volumes comprise the entirety of his literary output, ranging from the poetical to the philosophical, including 50 volumes of correspondence.
Scientific texts
- 1784: Über den Granit (About the Granite) (published posthumously in 1878)
- 1786: Über den Zwischenkiefer der Menschen und der Tiere (About the premaxilla of humans and animals)
- 1790: Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären (The Metamorphosis of Plants)
- 1791-92: Beiträge zur Optik (Contributions to Optics) (2 volumes)
- 1810: Zur Farbenlehre (The Theory of Colours)
Autobiographical
Non-fiction
Prose
Novels
Wilhelm Meister Trilogy
Novellas
- 1794–95: Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten (Conversations of German emigrants) - also includes the fairy tale Das Märchen
- 1828: Novella
Short stories
- 1795: Das Märchen (The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily) - a fairy tale
Poetry
- 1769 "Ohne Hast, ohne Rast" ("Haste not, Rest not")
- 1771: "Heidenröslein" ("Heath Rosebud"),
- 1773: "Prometheus",
- 1774: "Der König in Thule",
- 1782: "Der Erlkönig" ("The Alder King"),
- 1790: Römische Elegien (Roman Elegies), collection
- 1794: Reineke Fuchs, epic fable
- 1795 "Ich Denke Dein" ("I Think of You")
- 1795–96 (in collaboration with Friedrich Schiller): Die Xenien (The Xenia), collection of epigrams
- 1797: "Der Zauberlehrling" (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), (which was later the basis of a symphonic poem by Paul Dukas, which in turn was animated by Disney in Fantasia)
- 1797: "Die Braut von Korinth"[1] ("The Bride of Corinth"),
- 1798: Hermann und Dorothea (Hermann and Dorothea), epic
- 1798: Die Weissagungen des Bakis (The Soothsayings of Bakis)
- 1799: "The First Walpurgis Night",
- 1813: "Gefunden" ("Found"),
- 1819: Westöstlicher Diwan, variously translated as The West-Eastern Divan, The Parliament of East and West, or otherwise; collection of poems in imitation of Sufi and other Sunni Muslim poetry, including that of Hafez.
- 1823: "Marienbad Elegy",
Drama
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