AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE OF GERMANY, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE DEATH BY GUSTAV SOLLING. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW, DAVID NUTT, 270, STRAND. 1863. [The Right of Translation is reserved.] OLD HIGH GERMAN and OLD LOW GERMAN THE SWABIAN MINSTRELS. LYRIC AND DIDACTIC POETRY. 14-16ƒ 16f-36 'THE LAY OF THE Nibelungen,' 'GUDRUN,' and other Epics of that Era '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- GRADUAL DECLINE OF POETRY FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE 14th TO THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 16th CENTURY, ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE WRITERS WHO FOLLOWED THE MINSTRELS, UP TO THE REFORMATION, INCLUDING THE MOST 78-84 85-106 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 His Life and Works, 'GROUP OF LAOKOON,' 'NATHAN WIELAND. His Life and Works, ‘OBERON.' Criticisms 125-145 145-150 150-163 163-179 179-187 His Life and Works, IDEEN ZUR PHILOSOPHIE DER GESCHICHTE DER MENSCHHEIT,' 'CID,' LYRICS.— JEAN PAUL FRIEDERICH RICHTER. His Life and Works, 'TITAN,' 'MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS,' GÖTHE. His Life and Works, 'Götz VON BERLICHINGEN,' 'WER- FAUST.-FIRST PART (An Essay) SCHWÖRUNG DES FIESCO,' 'CABALE UND LIEBE,' 'DON KARLOS.' Extracts from Schiller's Historical Works, 'WALLENSTEIN,' 'MARIA STUART,' 'JUNGFRAU Introductory Remarks, 'IDEALE,' 'IDEAL UND 289-323 323-359 359-365 366, 367 TO THE READER. THIS work, the result of long and conscientious labour, owes, in a great measure, its origin to the encouragement given to me, by the critical Periodicals of this country, when some years ago I published my first Essay on the subject. Of the many difficulties I had to contend with, one of the greatest―the materials once collected-has been to give to every group its symmetrical proportions, to assign to the prominent figures their proper places, so as to enable the Reader to survey with ease the whole literary landscape like a vast panorama. Hence the necessity for introducing order and simplicity into the arrangement; my object being not so much to write a learned work (of which there exist already many), as to produce one that should be intelligible, because concise; and thus prove practically useful to the Reader. To attain this desideratum, I have treated the subject chronologically in the various Introductory Essays, and alphabetically, as regards the Writers and their Works, in the Lists accompanying each period. The Translations, either prepared by myself, or selected from British authors of acknowledged literary standing, will, I trust, be acceptable to the Reader. I am anxious to express here, how deeply indebted I feel to the many gifted British interpreters of the literature of my native country, among whom the gentle sex are so conspicuously and worthily represented. The Reader will, I am sure, know how to appreciate those beautiful hymns, so well translated by MISS WENKWORTH, MISS SWANWICK's stirringly graphic. and truthful version of the passages taken from Faust, and ETA MAWR's exquisite Poem, Devotion.' He will, no doubt, in reading SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON's translations from SCHILLER, the many citations from the celebrated author of Göthe's life, Mr. LEWES, Mr. EDGAR TAYLOR's beautiful Minstrel Songs, the successful versions of German Poems given by Messrs. BOWRING, MERIVALE, KNOX, MARTIN, AYTOUN, ANSTER, HAY |