Karl Philipp Moritz, the 'youngest' German classicist, is also the most unconventional. While he presented the most radical programmatic essay on Weimar's autonomy aesthetics, his greatest achievement - the autobiographical-psychological novel Anton Reiser - counters the harmonizing tendencies of someone like Wilhelm Meister with an unflinching view of the unresolved contradictions of the Enlightenment. Since Arno Schmidt drew attention to the complete works of this author in the 1950s, the literary public has rediscovered Moritz's impressive oeuvre in all its diversity. This edition offers a representative cross-section of his poetic works. In addition to Anton Reiser, the Hartknopf novels, and fragments from the diary of a seer, it also includes for the first time since 1781 the Six German Poems, a forgotten narrative fragment.