PHILADELPHIA
AMERICANA GERMANICA PRESS
1905
REPUBLISHED BY GALE RESEARCH COMPANY, BOOK TOWER, DETROIT, 1966
Copyright, 1905
By Edward Ziegler Davis
PAPER USED IN THIS EDITION IS
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COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS "300-YEAR" PAPER
TO MY PARENTS
IN APPRECIATION OF THEIR INTEREST AND ENCOURAGEMENT
IN THE PRESENT WORK
PREFACE.
The present study is an extension of a thesis, presented to the Faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The object has been to treat the material in the early American magazines which gave readers information about Germany and other Teutonic countries. While the primary aim has been to discuss the translations of poetry and the original poems bearing on the subject, all relevant prose articles have also been listed. Since many of the magazines used are extremely rare and almost unique, the texts from them are here reprinted in order to make such information accessible. As some of the translations and poems, however, have been traced to Thomas Campbell, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Thomas Gray and others, whose works are to be found in almost any library, reprinting was unnecessary in these cases. M. G. Lewis' Tales of Terror and Wonder has had, besides many early imprints, a recent edition by Henry Morley in 1887 and the poems from it that appeared in the American magazines are here mentioned by title only, the one exception being The Erl-King, which is included because of several variants. Long poems like The Wanderer of Switzerland (which itself would make a small book) are not reprinted.