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
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Essays
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
Theory of Prose
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Indo-European Poetry and Myth
Anatomy of Criticism
Five Faces of Modernity
Picture Theory
War and the Iliad
Three Philosophical Poets
Art, Perception and Reality
Likeness and Presence
Styles of Radical Will
It's Here Now (Are You?)
Art Nouveau
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (A Calderbook, Cb 358)
Goethe's Theory of colours
The Great Chain of Being
The Poetics of Prose