Category: German Literature
The following bibliography makes no claim to absolute completeness. The material required was in some instances so difficult of access, that exact data could not everywhere be given, but most of the entries are based upon personal investigation. Most of the short bibliographie...
“Klopstock verliert alles, wenn man ihn in der Nähe und im Einzelnen betrachtet. Man muss ihn in einer gewissen Ferne und im Ganzen erfassen. Wenn man ihn liest, scheint er peda...
5. Volume 2 appeared in 1775.The author of the essay is Herder. It is reprinted in No. 40 of the Deutsche Litteraturdenkmale des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, pp. 3–50, 76–80. Cf. also Herder’s Sämmtliche Werke...
6. CHAPTER II.Almost a century and a half has elapsed since the literary world of Europe bowed to a new offspring of the poetic muse that many thought would be immortal. The poems of Ossian w...
3. CHAPTER I.The following bibliography makes no claim to absolute completeness. The material required was in some instances so difficult of access, that exact data could not everywhere be g...
4. Book iv, p. 339, ll. 20–end. The first extract is translated inrimed couplets, the others in free meter.—For these and the translations from Ossian given in the Volkslieder, cf. Waag, Über Herders Übertragungen Englischer Gedichte, Heidelbe...
2. Chapter III. Ossian’s Influence upon Klopstock and the Bards.1. Chapter II. General Survey and First Notices.