1st Edition

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England, 1760-1860, Volume 5 A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals

Edited By John Boening Copyright 1977
700 Pages
by Routledge

700 Pages
by Routledge

700 Pages
by Routledge

The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18 th Century, through the first decades of the 19th, German books and... Read more

Part 2: Reviews of individual authors, excluding Goethe and Schiller, with volumes arranged chronologically by date of

Volume 5: Reviews of authors: Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), G. C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), Gottfried August Bürger (1747-1794), L. C. Hölty (1748-1776), Christian Graf zu Stolberg (1748-1821) and Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (1750-1819), C. L. Heyne ‘Anton Wall’ (1751-1821), J. H. Voss (1751-1826), August Lafontaine (1758-1831), August Wilhelm Iffland (1759 – 1814), August von Kotzebue (1761-1819), Zacharias Werner (1768-1823), ‘Novalis’ F. von Hardenberg (1772-1801)

Biography

John Boening was Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the English Department at the University of Toledo, USA.