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The indebtedness of German culture to other peoples has been the theme of much painstaking investigation. The history of German literature is, in large measure, the story of its successive periods of connection with the literatures of other lands, and hence scholars have sough...
The indebtedness of German culture to other peoples has been the theme of much painstaking investigation. The history of German literature is, in large measure, the story of its...
2. Chapter 2It is no exaggeration to assert that the works of Yorick obtained and still retain a relatively more substantial position of serious consideration and recognized merit in France...
3. Chapter 3On February 27, 1768, the Sentimental Journey was published in London,[1] less than three weeks before the author's death, and the book was at once transplanted to German soil,...
4. Chapter 4The publication of the Sentimental Journey, as implied in the previous chapter, brought Sterne into vital connection with literary impulses and emotional experiences in Germany,...
5. Chapter 5Thus in manifold ways Sterne was introduced into German life and letters.[1] He stood as a figure of benignant humanity, of lavish sympathy with every earthly affliction, he bec...
6. Chapter 6Among the disciples of Sterne in Germany whose literary imitation may be regarded as typical of their master's influence, Johann Georg Jacobi is perhaps the best known. His rela...
7. Chapter 7Sterne's influence in Germany lived its own life, and gradually and imperceptibly died out of letters, as an actuating principle. Yet its dominion was not achieved without some...
8. Chapter 8des vaterländischen Geschmack entwickeln [_unchanged: error for "den"?_] Vol. I, St. 2, pp. 245-251, 1772 [245-251.] Bode, the successful and honored translator [sucessful] send...
9. Chapter 9He says of the first parts of the Sentimental Journey, [Journay] the _Hamburgische Adress-Comptoir-Nachrichten_;[19] [Nachrichten_;" with superfluous close quote] Footnote 19: ....
10. Chapter 10manages to turn it at once with the greatest delicacy [delicay] the Journey which is here mentioned."[31] [mentionad] Footnote 34: ... (LII, pp. 370-371) [_missing )_] he is pro...
11. Chapter 11Footnote 3 ... Anmerk. 24 [Anmerk,] Animae quales non candidiores terra tulit." [_missing close quote_] "like Grenough's tooth-tincture [_missing open quote_] founding an order...
12. Chapter 12re-introducing a sentimental relationship. [relationiship] nach Erfindung der Buchdrukerkunst [_unchanged_] "Ueber die roten und schwarzen Röcke," [_"Röke" without close quote]...
13. Chapter 13expressed themselves quite unequivocally [themsleves] the pleasure of latest posterity." [_final . missing_] "regarded his taste as insulted because I sent him "Yorick's Empfind...