LESSING, GOTTHOLD E. b. 1729, d. 1781. German writer. Regarded as the father of the new era of German Literature.
THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF G. E. LESSING. Tr. ... Edited by E. Bell, 1878.
FABLES FROM THE GERMAN. Tr. by J. Richardson, 1773.
EMILIA GALOTTÉ.... Tr. by B. Thompson, 1801.
[1] LAOCOON; AN ESSAY, OR THE LIMITS OF POETRY AND PAINTING. Tr. by Wm. Ross, 1836.
NATHAN THE WISE; a Dramatic Poem, 1779. Tr. by Wm. Taylor, 1791.
SCHOOL OF HONOUR. Tr. 1799.
THREE COMEDIES. Tr. by J. J. Holroyd, 1838.
[1] 'Despite its errors and shortcomings, this famous treatise on the "Boundaries of Poetry and Painting", a work of criticism in the philosophy of the beautiful, has perhaps influenced more minds than any other work on æsthetics except those of Aristotle and Longinus'. To countless others besides Macaulay it has been their first illumination of the everlasting principles of beauty.