Contents
Introduction page . 1
Chapter I
Earliest Notice of German Poetry. — Fall of the Roman Empire. — The Institution of Chivalry. — The Minnesingers. — The Niebelungen-lied. — Decline of the Minstrelsy of Chivalry. — Growth of a Rude Popular Poetry . . .. 4
Chapter III
Popular Satires. — Ulrich von Hutten. — Hans Sachs. — The Drama. — Opitz. — The " German Palm-tree" Society. — The Eighteenth Century. — Mediocrities. — The Halberstadt School. — Bodmer. — Klopstock. — Gleim. — Wieland. — Lessing. — Herder. — Burger. — Jean Paul Richter. — Kotzebue. — Schiller. — Goethe . . 11
CHAPTER IV. The Castle on the Hill
The King in Thule .
Prologue-Song . . -
CHAPTER VI. Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea
CHAPTER VII. minor poets.
Neuffer —
The Absent Wife Neubeck —
A Spring Evening .
Schubart —
The Vault of the Princes Louise Brachmann —
The Night in the Mill
Consolation for Absence Christian and Frederick Stolberg-
Thanksgiving Song
Gleim —
The Star-gazer ....
Ernst Schulze ....
Voss —
The Festival in the Wood
CHAPTER VIII. The Moral Poet
The Sublime Theme Science .....
Kant and his Commentators The Diver, a Ballad .
The Knight of Toggenburg The Fight with the Dragon .
The Cranes of Ibycus The Lay of the Bell .
Chapter IX
uhland and other poets.
Uhland
The Minstrel's Curse
The Wreath
The Serenade
Song
The Castle on the Shore
The Lost Church
Harald .
Young Roland .
Gustavus Schwab .
Gustavus Pfitzer —
The Garden by the Churchyard
The Angel of Pity
JUSTINUS KERNER
The Water-Sprite .
ZlMMERMANN
Count Eberhard Julius Mosen —
The Trumpeter at Katzbach Reinick —
The Return Halirsch
The Watchman on the Tower
The Wandering Musician Max von Oer —
The Forget-me-not .
Stober —
St. Cecilia ....
Eichendorff —
The Still Ground .
The Priest and the Jacobin .
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER X. Childhood
Sonnet ....*.
KORNER HEINE GRABBE CHAMISSO GAUDY.
Theodore Korner —
CHAPTER XII. Liitzow's Wild Chase
Heine—
Vision of Travellers in the Desert . .
The Grenadiers .....
The Lion's Ride ....
The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar
A Sea Adventure ....
The Preacher's Family
German Emigrants
Grabbb ......
The Burial of the Bandit .
Adalbert von Chamisso —
A Scene at Congo .
The Dying Lady ....
The Pictured Bible ....
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Duke Huldreich and Beatrice
The Revenge of the Flowers .
The Widow's Prayer
Death of the Emigrant-Leader .
The Mirage
African Loyalty
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The Journeyman's Return .
. 118
The Thunder-storm
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Gaudy —
The Cook's Elegy ....
The Negro-prince. A Ballad .
Mount Nebo
. 118 119
In the Wood .....
CHAPTER XL
The Waker in the Wilderness
To the Sea .
RUCKERT PLATEN LENAU GEIBEL DEE
G.
The Emigrant Poet ....
RlJCKERT
On a Glorious Eve of Whitsuntide .
A Poet's Utopia ....
Moss-tea ......
The Conversation of the Ships
The Poet's Life ....
CHAPTER XIII. Luca Signorelli
The Pilgrim of St. Just .
The Poetry of Steam
The Burial at St. Just . . .
The Tea-plant
The Vision of Charles the Fifth .
The dying Comedian
Naples ......
The Unknown .....
The Fisher-maid of Burano
The Deserter ....
Harmosan .....
The old Soldier
Philemon's Death ....
The Penitent ....
An Invitation to Sorrento
The Churchyard amid the Mountains .
Florence
The Muse called to Judgment
The Pyramid of Cestius .
The Shell and the Kernel .
Misanthropy .....
The last Poet .
The Better Part ....
Brunelleschi . . .
CHAPTER XIV. To Marco Saracini
To the Countess Pieri in Sienna
DIDACTIC POETRY.
Vesuvius . . . . .
Leopold Schefer . , . .
Lenau —
The Death of Spring
Conclusion
Autumn ......
The Postillion ....
The Post-horn
Emanuel Geibel —
Spring's Revelation
The Haunted Castle
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108 108 108
Edmund and Ursula ....
Margaret and the Student
Light for All
Among the Coal-mines of Durham The Poet's Task ....
133 135 136
137 137
"Let not the Sun go down upon youi
Wrath" '
On the last Day of Autumn .
137 137
A Song of Similes ....
Moonlight Fancies ....
On the Water .....
" Oh, cast no more those smiles on me !"
109 109 109 110 110 110
The Third Thought the Best
The Valley of the Spell . ...
The Lady and the River .
The Land of Rest . . . .
138 138 138 139
Three Wishes .....
Autumnal Feeling ....
CHILDREN'S POETRY.
The Dying Swan ....
" Behold the Fowls of the Air " .
Sonnet ......
Honesty .
Silent Love .....
The Apple-tree
Song
. Ill
Longing for Spring
Sonnet ......
Contentment . . • • • •
The King's Beard ....
. Ill
Music for the Dying . . • •
THE
SPIRIT OF GERMAN POETRY.
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