What to Read After Laocoon
Readers who loved Laocoon by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Laocoon is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Laocoon
Poetics
Philosophy in a New Key
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers
Indo-European Poetry and Myth
Theory of Prose
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Essays
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
Art, Perception and Reality
Likeness and Presence
It's Here Now (Are You?)
Five Faces of Modernity
The Poetics of Prose
Picture Theory
The Great Chain of Being
Anatomy of Criticism
War and the Iliad
Goethe's Theory of colours
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (A Calderbook, Cb 358)
Three Philosophical Poets
Art Nouveau
Styles of Radical Will