Section A: Literature 1700-1815 (including Goethe's works to 1832)

1. Poetry Candidates should study poems by two or more of the following writers:

Günther, Gedichte, Reclam no. 1295 Brockes, Gedichte, Reclam no. 2015 Haller, Die Alpen und andere Gedichte, Reclam 8963 Hagedorn, Gedichte, Reclam no. 1321 Klopstock, Oden, Reclam no. 1391 Wieland, Musarion, Reclam no. 95 Schiller, Gedichte, Reclam 7714 Novalis, Gedichte, Reclam no. 3236 Brentano, Gedichte, Reclam no. 8669 Eichendorff, Gedichte, Reclam no. 7925 Also relevant are poems by Goethe (topics 3 and 5 and Special Topic I) and Hölderlin (topic 7).

Interpretations of selected poems in Gedichte und Interpretationen: Aufklärung und Sturm und Drang, Reclam no. 7891; W. Segebrecht (ed.), Gedichte und Interpretationen: Klassik und Romantik, Reclam 7892; Kevin Hilliard, 'Religious and Secular Poetry and Epic (1700-1780)', in: German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment and Sensibility, ed. Barbara Becker-Cantarino (2005), pp. 105-130; Charlie Louth, 'The Romantic Lyric', in: The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism, ed. Nicholas Saul (2009), pp. 67-84; Judith Ryan, The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry (Cambridge 2012).

2. Drama Candidates should study dramas by two or more of the following writers:

Lessing, Miss Sara Sampson, Minna von Barnhelm, , Emilia Galotti, , Nathan der Weise,

Gerstenberg, Ugolino Lenz, Der Hofmeister, Die Soldaten Wagner, Die Kindermörderin Klinger, Sturm und Drang, Die Zwillinge.

Also relevant are dramas by Goethe (topic 3 and Special Topic I), Schiller (topic 6), Kleist (topic 8).

Relevant theoretical works: Lessing, Hamburgische Dramaturgie, esp. Sections 11, 14, 19, 46, 59, 70, 74-83, 89-91, 101-4; Herder, essay on 'Shakespeare' in Von deutscher Art und Kunst, R. Grimm (ed), Deutsche Dramentheorien, Vol 1, 3rd edn, 1980.

Francis Lamport, Lessing and the Drama (Oxford, 1981), German Classical Drama (1990), Edward McInnes, 'Ein ungeheures Theater': The Drama of the Sturm und Drang (Frankfurt, 1987), D. Hill (ed.), Literature of the Sturm und Drang, 2002, Karl S. Guthke, Das deutsche bürgerliche Trauerspiel, 6th edn., 2006.

3. Goethe to 1790 (a) Goethe in Frankfurt. Götz von Berlichingen, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, ed R. Paulin 1993; Von deutscher Baukunst, Zum Shakespeares-Tag

(b) Goethe in Weimar. Iphigenie auf Tauris, Egmont,; Torquato Tasso

For both (a) and (b): relevant poems from: Gedichte, Reclam no. 6782 or CUP selection, ed. Swales, or from T. J. Reed, (London: Bristol

Classical Press, 1999)

All of the works listed can be found in Goethes Werke, Hamburger Ausgabe (=HA), ed. Erich Trunz, 14 vols (Hamburg, 1948-64); this is a useful annotated edition of Goethe's works. Also recommended are the Frankfurther and Münchener Ausgaben of Goethe’s works.

T.J. Reed, Goethe (Oxford, 1984). For a fuller list of works by and on Goethe, see Section B below and the supplementary reading list. See also relevant sections in Nicholas Boyle, Goethe The Poet and the Age, 1991.

4. Goethe's narrative works Questions will require answers on two or more works, except that a question will also be set requiring reference only to Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Wilhelm Meisters theatralische SendungR. Pascal The German Novel (Manchester, 1956) 3-29; M. Beddow, The Fiction of Humanity (Cambridge, 1982), 63-158; M. Minden, The German Bildungsroman : Incest and Inheritance (Cambridge, 1997);

Die Wahlverwandtschaften;W. Benjamin, 'Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften' in: Illuminationen (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch); H.G. Barnes Goethe's "Wahlverwandtschaften". A literary interpretation (Oxford, 1967);

Italienische Reise;Novelle; Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre;N. Boyle, 'Goethe: Novelle' in: Landmarks in German Short Prose ed. P. Hutchinson (2003)

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (topic 3), Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten and Campagne in Frankreich (Goethe Special Topic I), and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Goethe Special Topic II) are also relevant to this topic.

5. Goethe's later poetry Post-1790 poems from: Gedichte, Reclam no. 6782 or CUP selection, ed. Swales, or HA1; Römische Elegien (HA 1, 157-73) + suppressed elegies and Priapic poems (eg. WA I, 53, 3-7 or ed. & trans. D. Luke and H.R. Vaget (London, 1988));West-Östlicher Divan (HA 2); 'The Spectrum of Goethe's Poetry', German Life and Letters. Special Goethe Number, 1982-3, pp. 77-115. See also relevant sections in Nicholas Boyle, Goethe The Poet and the Age, 2000. Hermann und Dorothea (Goethe Special Topic I) is also relevant to this topic.

6. Schiller Die Räuber; Kabale und Liebe; Wallensteins Tod; Maria Stuart; Die Jungfrau von Orleans; Wilhelm Tell. Schiller-Handbuch, ed. M. Luserke (2005); Lesley Sharpe, Schiller (Cambridge, 1991); W. Hinderer (ed.), Interpretationen: Schillers Dramen, Reclam 8807; K.S. Guthke, Schillers Dramen, 1994; Paul E. Kerry ed. Friedrich Schiller. Playwright, Poet, Philosopher, Historian (2007); John Guthrie, Schiller the Dramatist. A Study of Gesture in the Plays (2009)

7. Hölderlin Gedichte, Reclam no. 6266; Hyperion; Empedokles, ed. Maurice Benn, Clarendon Series.David Constantine, Hölderlin, (Oxford, 1998)

8. Kleist Dramas and stories, Über das Marionettentheater

Hilda M. Brown, The Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form (Oxford, 1998); A. Stephens, Heinrich von Kleist: The Dramas and Stories, 1994; S. Allan, The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist, 1996, The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist, 2001.