SOURCE: “Organic Structure in Goethe's Novelle,” in The German Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 4, November, 1980, pp. 418-31.
In the following essay, Wells compares the literary structure of Goethe's Novelle to the metamorphosis of seed to flowering plant, which he argues Goethe intended to show “the necessary harmony and compatibility of natural law and poetic structure.”
