AN

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL

SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE

OF

GERMANY,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE DEATH
OF GÖTHE.

BY GUSTAV SOLLING.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW,

DAVID NUTT, 270, STRAND.

1863.

[The Right of Translation is reserved.]

LONDON

PRINTED BY J. WERTHEIMER AND CO.,

CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY CIRCUS.

OLD HIGH GERMAN AND OLD LOW GERMAN

THE SWABIAN MINSTRELS. LYRIC AND DIDACTIC POETRY.
ARRANGED LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL

ALPHABETICALLY

MINSTRELS

EARLY EPIC POETRY.

'THE LAY OF THE NIBELUNGEN,' 'GUDRUN,' and other Epics

of that Era

EARLY ESTHETIC POETRY.

'ROLANDSONG.' LEGEND OF THE 'HOLY GRAAL,' 'PARCI-

VAL,' 'LOHENGRIN,' 'TITUREL.' LEGENDS OF KING

ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE,

'TRISTAN AND ISOLT,' 'EREK,' 'IWEIN,' or 'THE

KNIGHT WITH THE LION,' 'WIGALOIS.' LEGENDS

BASED ON ANCIENT POEMS: VIRGIL'S 'ENEID,' ALEX-

ANDER THE GREAT. LEGENDS OF A SACRED CHARACTER:

'ORENDEL,' 'ANNOLIED,' 'SALOMON and MOROLT

GRADUAL DECLINE OF POETRY FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE

14th TO THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 16th CENTURY,

'MEISTERGESANG,' 'VOLKSLIED,' 'SACRED HYMNS,'

AN ESSAY

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE WRITERS WHO FOLLOWED THE

MINSTRELS, UP TO THE REFORMATION, INCLUDING THE MOST

PROMINENT OF THE MEISTERSINGERS, AND THOSE OF THE

VOLKSLIED

LEGENDS ABOUT ANIMALS (THIERSAGE).

REINARDUS' (REINECKE VOS)

THE REFORMATION.

LUTHER, HIS CELEBRATED HYMN-EINE FESTE BURG IST

UNSER GOTT.' A Sermon, 'OF THE RESURRECTION OF

THE DEAD,' preached by Dr. Martin Luther, in the

year 1544.

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 17TH TO THE MIDDLE OF THE

18TH CENTURY, an Essay

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ix

xi

1-13

13

14-16ƒ

16f-36

36-58

58-78

78-84

85-106

107-111

His Life and Works, 'THE MESSIAH,' ODES.-General Criti-

cisms on his Works

LESSING.

His Life and Works, 'GROUP OF LAOKOON,' 'NATHAN

DER WEISE,' FABLES, EPIGRAMS.-General Criti-

cisms

WIELAND.

His Life and Works, OBERON.' Criticisms

HERDER.

150-163

163-179

JEAN PAUL FRIEDERICH RICHTER.

His Life and Works, 'TITAN,' 'MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS,'
'VORSCHULE DER ESTHETIK.'-Criticisms

GÖTHE.

His Life and Works, 'Götz VON BERLICHINGEN,' 'WER-
THER'S LEIDEN,' 'IPHIGENIA AUF TAURIS,' 'EGMONT,'
"TORQUATO TASSO,' 'WAHRHEIT UND DICHTUNG,'
'WILHELM MEISTER,' 'HERMANN AND DOROTHEA,'
'WAHLVERWANDSCHAFTEN,' 'GÖTHE'S LYRICS'

FAUST.-FIRST PART (An Essay)

SCHILLER.

SECOND PART (An Essay), Criticisms

THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT'S LINES
SCHILLER'S Life and Works. 'DIE RAEUBER,' 'VER-
SCHWÖRUNG DES FIESCO,' 'CABALE UND LIEBE,'
'DON KARLOS.' Extracts from Schiller's Historical
Works, 'WALLENSTEIN,' 'MARIA STUART,' 'JUNGFRAU
VON ORLEANS,' 'BRAUT VON MESSINA,' 'WILHELM
TELL'.

SCHILLER'S LYRICS.

Introductory Remarks, 'IDEALE,' 'IDEAL UND

LEBEN,' 'AN DIE FREUDE,' 'DIE KÜNSTLER.'-

Ballads, 'RITTER TOGGENBURG,' 'DIE BÜRGSCHAFT,'

'DER TAUCHER,' 'DAS LIED VON DER GLOCKE'

SCHILLER'S Own Criticisms on his Works, contained in a
number of Letters to his Literary Friends
CONCLUDING REMARKS, introductory to the Writers of the
Romantic School

196-210

210-248

248-270

280-288

289

289-323

323-359