Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Pt. 1. Essays on art: Architecture: On German architecture ; On Gothic architecture
  • Ancient art: On the Laocoon group ; Myron's cow ; A grave near cumae
  • European art: Giuseppe Bossi : On Leonardo da Vinci's Last supper at Milan ; Giotto's Last supper ; Ruisdael as poet ; Rembrandt the thinker ; Two landscapes by Philipp Hackert
  • Theory and history of art: Simple imitation, manner, style ; On realism in art ; Introduction to the Propylaea ; Ancient versus modern ; A challenge for a modern sculptor ; Christ and twelve figures from the Old and New Testaments : a suggestion for sculptors ; Winckelmann and his age ; The collector and his circle
  • Pt. 2. Essays on literature: Literary criticism: Shakespeare : a tribute ; Shakespeare once again ; Laurence Sterne ; On Byron's Manfred ; On Byron's Cain ; Dante ; On Calderon's Daughter of the air ; A German Gil Blas ; Faust (Tragédie de Monsieur de Goethe)
  • Literary theory: Response to a literary rabble-rouser ; On epic and dramatic poetry ; Didactic poetry ; On Greek tetralogies ; On interpreting Aristotle's Poetics ; Plato as party to a Christian revelation ; Stages of man's mind ; Justus Möser : superstition and poetry ; On Carlyle's German romance ; Advice for young poets ; Further advice for young poets
  • Pt. 3. Observations on art and literature: On dilettantism ; On acting ; On world literature
  • Postcript.