Major Works of Goethe

• 1771: "Heidenröslein" ("Heath Rosebud"), poem
• 1773: "Prometheus", poem
• 1773: Götz von Berlichingen, drama
• 1774: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther), novel
• 1774: "Der König in Thule", poem
• 1775: Stella, tragedy in five acts
• 1782: "Der Erlkönig" ("The Alder King"), poem
• 1787: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Iphigenia in Tauris), drama
• 1788: Egmont, drama
• 1790: Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären (The Metamorphosis of Plants), scientific text
• 1790: Torquato Tasso, drama
• 1790: Römische Elegien (Roman Elegies), poetry collection
• 1793: Die Belagerung von Mainz, (The Siege of Mainz), non-fiction
• 1794: Reineke Fuchs, fable
• 1795: Das Märchen (The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily), fairy-tale
• 1794-95: Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten, novella, which also includes the fairy tale Das Märchen
• 1795-96 (in collaboration with Friedrich Schiller): Die Xenien (The Xenia), collection of epigrams
• 1796: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship), novel
• 1797: "Der Zauberlehrling" (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), poem (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" ("The Bride of Corinth"), poem
• 1798: Hermann und Dorothea (Hermann and Dorothea), epic poem
• 1798: Die Weissagungen des Bakis (The Soothsayings of Bakis)
• 1798/01: Propyläen, periodical
• 1799: "The First Walpurgis Night", poem
• 1803: Die Natürliche Tochter (The Natural Daughter), play originally intended as the first part of a trilogy on the French revolution
• 1805: "Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert" ("Winckelmann and His Century")
• 1808: Faust Part One, closet drama
• 1809: Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities), novel
• 1810: Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours), scientific text
• 1811-1830: Aus Meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (From my Life: Poetry and Truth) autobiographical work in 4 volumes
• 1813: "Gefunden" ("Found"), a poem
• 1817: Italienische Reise (Italian Journey), journals
• 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 Muslim poetry, including that of Hafez.
• 1821: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder Die Entsagenden (Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants/Wilhelm Meister's Travels), novel
• 1823: "Marienbad Elegy", poem
• 1828: Novella, novella
• 1832: Faust Part Two, closet drama
• 1836: Gespräache mit Goethe (Conversations with Goethe) also translated as: Conversations with Eckermann

Poems of Goethe

• Der Erlkönig
• Ganymed
• Gingo biloba
• Heidenröslein
• Hermann and Dorothea
• Der König in Thule
• Marienbad Elegy
• Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
• Prometheus
• Roman Elegies
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• Welcome and Farewell
• Wanderer's Nightsong
• West-östlicher Divan

Plays of Goethe

• Der Bürgergeneral
• Clavigo
• Faust
  • Faust I
  • Faust II
• Egmont
• Erwin und Elmire
• Götz von Berlichingen
• Iphigenia in Tauris
• The Natural Daughter
• Torquato Tasso

Natural Science

• Metamorphosis of Plants
• Theory of Colours

Conversations

• Gespräche mit Goethe