Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810

by Edward Ziegler Davis

• A Dutch Proverb, [121], [138]
• A Fable (Gellert), [28]
• A General View of Switzerland, etc., [136]
• A German Drinking Song, [70]
• A Hist. of Amer. Lit. (M. C. Tyler), [11]
• A Humble Imitation, etc., [155]
• A literal translation of the King of Prussia's Ode, [18], [105]
• A Sketch of the Alps, etc., [158]
• A Song (Frederick), [18]
• A Sonnet (Jacobi), [68], [85]
• Adams, C. F., [3]
• Adams, J. Q., [2], [3], [204]
• Address at the Opening of the Bechstein Library (M. D. Learned), [2]
• "Adelio," [5], [16], [65], [66]
• Against Faustus, [18], [155]
• Albert of Werdendorff, [154]
• Allston, Washington, [188]
• Almanacs, [6], [11]
• Ambrosio or the Monk (M. G. Lewis), [5], [35], [140], [146]
• American Mag.; or Monthly View, etc., [14]
• American Museum, [8]
• American Philosophical Society, [9], [215]
• American Revolution, [18]
• Americana Germanica, [1], [3]
• Aminta (Gessner), [58]
• Amyntas [α] (Gessner), [25]
• Amyntas [β] (Gessner), [35]
• Annandius, [95], [99]
• Apparitionist, The (Schiller's Geisterseher), [4]
• Appointment Disappointed, [177]
• Bacchanalian, The, [22]
• Bancroft, George, [3]
• Battle of Hohenlinden, cf. [On the Battle of Hohenlinden].
• Benevolence (Gellert), [17], [30], [58], [65]
• Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters (J. B. McMaster), [14]
• Berlin, University of, [3]
• Boston Public Library, [9], [215]
• Bradford, Andrew, [13]
• British Museum, [17], [215]
• Broken Pitcher, The (Gessner), [32]
• Bruggeman, L. W., [17]
• Bürde, [5], [20], [63]
• Bürger, [5], [18], [19], [20], [29], [31], [32], [34], [44], [68], [76], [80], [85], [146], [165], [169]
• Burlesque on the Style, etc., [5], [18], [143], [146]
• By the Late King of Prussia, cf. [Relaxation of War].
• Campbell, Thomas, vii, [6], [75], [153], [171], [180]
• Carlyle, [1]
• Carnation, The (Gessner), [75]
• Carr's Northern Summer, [161]
• Channing, Geo. D., [1]
• Channing, W. E., [1], [17]
• Characteristic Sketch, etc., [128]
• Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter, [19], [181]
• Charlotte's Soliloquy, etc., [5], [19], [125]
• Chase, The (Bürger), Trans. by Scott, [5], [34], [76]
• Check-list of American Magazines, etc. (P. L. Ford), [8]
• Claudine von Villa Bella (Goethe), [20], [80]
• Cloud King, The, [18], [19], [140], [146]
• Cogan's, Dr., Travels on the Rhine, [71]
• Coleridge, [1]
• Collyer, Mary, [58]
• Cooper, J. F., [3]
• Cow Boy's Chaunt (Ranz des Vaches), [19], [180]
• Cramer, William, cf. [Creamer, Wm].
• Creamer (or Cramer), William, [1]
• Damon and Daphne (Gessner), [51]
• Dancing Bear, The (Gellert), [57], [161]
• Daphne-Chloe, cf. [First Idyl of Gesner].
• Death of Abel (Gessner), [4], [20]
• Death of Werter, [19], [126]
• Descent of Odin, [128], [175]
• Dictionary of Books Relating to America (Sabin), [216], [219], [223]
• Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Goethe), [19], [24]
• Die Zauberlôte (Mozart's Zauberflöte), [75], [85]
• Dunlap, W., [27]
• Dwight, Henry E., [3]
• Early Influence of German Literature in America (F. H. Wilkens), [3]
• Earth's Division, The, [17]
• Ella, [130], [136]
• Ellenore, cf. [Leonora] [α], [32]
• Emerson, [3]
• Emilia Galotti (Lessing), Trans. by Fanny Holycroft, [4]
• England, viii, [1], [3], [4], [14], [19], [20], [76]
• Epigrams (Lessing), [71]
• Epitaph by Haller, [21]
• Erl-King, The (Goethe), vii, [5], [18], [20], [34], [35], [140]
• Erl-King's Daughter, The, [5], [18], [35], [140]
• Everett, A. H., [3]
• Everett, Edward, [1], [2]
• Fable (Gellert), [27]
• Fables et Contes (Gellert), [17]
• Faust, [13], [18], [155]
• Fire King, The, [18], [19], [140], [146]
• First Idyl of Gesner—Daphne-Chloe, [27]
• Fly, The (Gellert), [54]
• Follen, Karl, [1]
• Ford, P. L., [8]
• Foreign Influence upon Education in the U. S. (B. A. Hinsdale), [2]
• Foreign Poetical, Political Summary, [170]
• Forget Me Not, [82]
• Fowler, The (Schickaneder), [75], [85]
• Franklin, Benjamin, [2], [13], [14]
• Frederick and Alice (Goethe), [20], [80]
• Frederick, the Great, [16], [18], [96], [99], [101], [105], [106], [109], [110], [112], [113], [116], [117], [119], [121], [138], [140], [158], [161]
• Friendship, [36]
• From the German, [56]
• From the German of Gesner, [81]
• From the German of Lessing, [73]
• From the Runic, [173]
• Galleret, cf. [Gellert].
• Geisterseher (Schiller), [4]
• Gellert, [1], [5], [16], [17], [19], [20], [27], [28], [30], [54], [56], [57], [58], [65], [161]
• General Magazine, The, [13]
• German as a Culture Element, etc. (M. D. Learned), [3]
• German Influence, The, on Samuel Taylor Coleridge (J. L. Haney), [1]
• German Instruction in American Schools (L. Viereck), [2]
• German Lit. in Eng. before 1790 (J. L. Haney), [1]
• Germany, vii, [1], [2], [3], [6], [14], [15], [17], [19], [153], [155], [191]
• Gessner, [4], [5], [16], [17], [19], [20], [21], [25], [27], [29], [32], [35], [36], [39], [41], [43], [51], [58], [61], [65], [73], [75], [80], [81], [85]
• Goethe, [1], [5], [13], [17], [19], [20], [23], [24], [34], [80]
• Golden Verse of Pythagoras, [6]
• Gothic Castle, The, [138]
• Göttingen, University of, [1], [2], [3]
• Göttingische Anzeigen, [2]
• Gray, Thomas, vii, [18], [128], [159], [175]
• Grim, King of the Ghosts, [18], [152]
• Guardian Spirit, The (Matthisson), [67]
• Haller, [5], [16], [20], [21], [25], [27], [78]
• Haney, John L., [1]
• Hans Letter to Notchie, [151]
• Harvard University, [1], [3], [215]
• Haunting of Havardur, cf. [Runic Ode].
• Hawkesworth, Dr., [121], [161]
• Heidelberg, University of, [3]
• Helmuth, J. H. C., [2]
• Herbert, Mr., [77]
• Herder, [35], [140]
• Hermann und Dorothea (Goethe), [13]
• Herzfeld, Georg, [1], [20]
• Hinsdale, B. A., [2]
• Historic Survey of German Poetry (Taylor), [29], [32]
• Hoffnung ("Adelio"), [16], [65]
• Holcroft, Fanny, [4]
• Hooper, W., [25], [29], [35], [65], [73], [75]
• Hope ("Adelio"), [66]
• Hopkinson, Francis, [1], [17], [194]
• Hrim Thor; or the Winter King, [18], [152]
• Idyls (Gessner), [4], [5], [16], [20]
• Invitation to Joy, [59]
• Jacobi, [5], [20], [68], [85]
• James, E. J., [2]
• Journal of a Tour through Silesia (J. Q. Adams), [2], [204]
• Kiampe Viiser, [35]
• King of Prussia, cf. [Frederick the Great].
• King of Prussia's Ode, [18], [109]
• Klopstock, [1], [4], [5], [6], [20], [66], [75]
• Kotzebue, [5], [20], [64]
• Krummacher, [15], [16]
• Kunze, J. C., [2]
• Ladd, Dr., [125], [128], [130]
• Lass of Fair Wone, The (Bürger), [29], [32], [80]
• Learned, M. D., [2], [3]
• Leftly, C., [163], [170]
• Leiden, Die, des jungen Werthers (Goethe), cf. [Werter].
• Lenore (Bürger), cf. [Leonora], [19], [146]
• Leonora [α] (Bürger), trans. by Wm. Taylor, [5], [19], [32], [34]
• Leonora [β] (Bürger), [44]
• Leonora [γ] (Bürger), [68]
• Lessing, [1], [4], [5], [19], [20], [33], [60], [71], [73]
• Letter LXI of the Sorrows of Werter Versified, [16], [19], [23]
• Letters of Charlotte, The, [19]
• Lewis, M. G., [vii], [5], [15], [32], [34], [35], [80], [140], [146], [147], [152], [154], [162]
• Library of Congress, [9], [215]
• Literary Hist. of the Amer. Revolution (M. C. Tyler), [10]
• Literary Industry of the Germans, [17]
• Longfellow, [3]
• Lycas (Gessner), [36]
• McMaster, J. B., [14]
• Matthisson, [5], [20], [29], [67]
• Memoirs of John Quincy Adams (C. F. Adams), [3]
• Messiah (Klopstock), [4], [5], [66]
• Mirtil and Thirsis (Gessner), [21]
• Miscellanies, [7]
• Monk, The, cf. [Ambrosio].
• Montgomery, James, [76], [163], [169], [175], [176]
• Monthly Review (London), [3]
• Morley, Henry, [vii], [32]
• Morning, The (Haller), [16], [25], [27]
• Morning Song (Gessner), [81]
• Morning Song of Praise (Patzke), [62]
• Moss Rose, The (Krummacher), [15], [16]
• Mozart, [76], [178]
• Mr. Voltaire's Letter, etc., [18], [116]
• Myrtil and Daphne (Gessner), [41]
• Myrtillo (Gessner), [39]
• Name Unknown, The (Klopstock), by T. Campbell, [6], [75]
• Narcissa, [19], [125]
• Navigation (Gessner), [16], [61]
• New England Kalendar, [13]
• New Idylles by Gessner, cf. [Hooper, W].
• New Idyls, by S. Gessner, [5]
• New Weekly Journal, [13]
• Newport Mercury, [6], [75]
• Newspaper, The, [6], [10], [11]
• Nosegay, The (Gessner), [65]
• Oberon, cf. [Wieland].
• Ode on the late Victory, etc., [5], [18], [99]
• Ode to Adversity (T. Gray), [18], [159]
• Ode to Death (Frederick), [18], [121], [161]
• Ode to Evening, [71]
• Ode to Spring, [62]
• Ode to the German Drama, [18], [159]
• Odes from the Norse and Welch Tongues (T. Gray), [175]
• Old Man, The (Gessner), [21], [27]
• On a Cargo of French Muffs, etc., [108]
• On reading in the publick Papers, etc., [18], [112]
• On Reading the Sorrows of Werter, [19], [129]
• On Singing Mozart's "Vergiss Me Nicht," [178]
• On the Battle of Hohenlinden (T. Campbell), [171], [180]
• On the compleat Victory, etc., [18], [96]
• On the Death, etc. (T. Campbell), [153]
• On the Death of Mr. Handel, [154]
• On the glorious Victory, etc., [18], [101]
• Orlando, [139]
• Paint King, The (W. Allston), [18], [19], [183], [189]
• Parody on Bürger's Earl Walter, [18], [76], [165]
• Parson's Daughter, The (Bürger), cf. [Lass of Fair Wone, The].
• Passage from Klopstock's Messiah, [66]
• Patzke, [5], [20], [62]
• Peasant of the Alps, [134], [140]
• Pennsylvania Gazette, [13]
• Pennsylvania, University of, [vii], [2], [194], [215]
• Philadelphia, [8], [215]
• Philadelphia Library Company, [9], [215]
• Philadelphia Magazines, etc. (A. H. Smyth), [8], [11]
• Phila. Repository, [16]
• Phila. Weekly Mercury, [13], [14]
• Philandreia, [96]
• Poem of Haller Versified, The, [78]
• Poetry, German lyric, [15]
• Port Folio, [3], [8]
• Prayer of Frederick II, etc., [18], [158]
• Pringle, Mr., [2]
• Pro Patri Mori (Bürger), [31]
• Prologue to a Play, [95]
• Pye, J. H., [78]
• Quiz, [178]
• Ranz des Vaches, [16], [19], [156], [176]
• Relaxation of War (Frederick), [18], [110], [138], [140]
• Remarks on National Literature (W. E. Channing), [1]
• Report of the Commissioner of Education, [2]
• Royal Comet, The, [18], [113]
• Runic Ode, [163], [170]
• Sabin, cf. [Dictionary of Books], etc.
• Scandinavian Hero, The, [157]
• Schickeneder, [5], [76], [85]
• Schiller, [1], [4], [13], [19]
• Scott, Sir Walter, vii, [5], [15], [34], [76], [80]
• Seward, Mr., [159]
• "Sheller," [5], [82]
• Shoe Pinches, The (Kotzebue), [64]
• Silesia, cf. [Journal of a Tour Through S].
• Smyth, A. H., [8], [11]
• Soldier of the Alps, The, [179]
• Song (Jacobi), [85]
• Song (M. G. Lewis), [162]
• Song, trans. by Mr. Herbert, [77]
• Song—from the German, [73]
• Song of a Runic Bard, The, [173]
• Song of the Swiss in a Strange Land, [19], [176], [177], [181]
• Sorrows of Switzerland, The, [171]
• Sotheby, [2]
• Speech of the Prince of Brunswick, etc., [107]
• Speech on the learned languages (Hon. Francis Hopkinson), [17], [194]
• Spencer, W. R., cf. [Leonora] [γ].
• Squeaking Ghost, The, [18], [174], [182], [188]
• Stanley, J. T., cf. [Leonora] [γ].
• Stimmen der Völker (Herder), [35], [140]
• Suicide, The (Gellert), [56]
• Swallow, The (Lessing), [33]
• Swedish Cottage, The, [161]
• Swiss Emigrant's Dream of Home, The, [19]
• Swiss Exiles' Song, The, [19]
• Swiss Peasant, [169]
• Switzerland, [vii], [16], [19], [136], [163], [169], [171], [175], [191]
• Switzer's Return, The, [19]
• Switzer's Song of Home, The, [19]
• Tales of Terror and Wonder (M. G. Lewis), [vii], [5], [32], [34], [35], [80], [140], [146], [152], [154]
• Tales of Wonder (M. G. Lewis), cf. [Tales of Terror and Wonder].
• Taylor, William, of Norwich, [1], [5], [15], [29], [32], [69]. Cf. also, [William Taylor von Norwich].
• Tell, Wilhelm, cf. [Wilhelm Tell].
• Third Psalm paraphrased, etc., [18], [106]
• Thyrsis and Chloe (Gessner), [25]
• Ticknor, George, [3]
• To a Little Charmer (Lessing), [33]
• To Chloe (Gesner), [85]
• Trans. from Lessing, [60]
• Trans. from the German, [83]
• Trans. from the Idyls of Gessner, [43]
• Trans. of an Epistle, etc. (Frederick), [18], [119]
• Travels in the North of Germany (H. E. Dwight), [3]
• Trust in God, [6]
• Tschink, [4]
• Tyler, M. C., [10], [11]
• Universal Song of Praise (Bürde), [63]
• U. S. Mag. and Democratic Rev., [3]
• Usurer, The (Gellert), [17]
• "Van Vander Horderclogeth," [5], [83]
• Verses by the Late King of Prussia, cf. [Relaxation of War].
• Victim of Magical Delusion (Tschink), [4]
• Viereck, L., [2]
• Virtue Rewarded (Gessner), [29]
• Voltaire's letter, cf. [Mr. Voltaire's letter].
• Wallenstein, [13]
• Wanderer of Switzerland, The, vii, [76], [163], [169], [175]
• Water King, The, trans. by M. G. Lewis, [5], [18], [140], [146], [147]
• Webbe, John, [13], [14]
• Werter, [5], [16], [19], [20], [23], [24], [34], [125], [126], [127], [129], [130], [141], [158], [181]
• Werter's Epitaph, [19], [127], [130], [158]
• Werter's Farewell to Charlotte, [19], [141]
• Werther (Goethe), cf. [Werter].
• West Indies, The, and Other Poems (James Montgomery), [176]
• Wieland, [1], [2]
• Wild Hunter, The (Bürger), [85]
• Wild Huntsman, The (Bürger), cf. [Chase, The].
• Wilhelm Tell (Schiller), [13], [19]
• Wilkens, F. H., [3], [4], [5], [19], [20]
• William Taylor von Norwich (Georg Herzfeld), [1]
• William Tell, cf. [Wilhelm Tell].
• Winter, [18], [95]
• Winter King, The, cf. [Hrim Thor].
• Wish, The (Matthisson), [29]
• Wolf King, The, [18], [147]
• Wooden Leg, The [α] (Gessner), [73]
• Wooden Leg, The [β] (Gessner), [80]
• Wordsworth, William, [vii], [155]
• Works of Thomas Gray, ed. by Edmund Gosse, [128]
• Works of W. E. Channing, The, [1]
• Written in Germany, etc., [153]
• Written in Germany, etc. (W. Wordsworth), [155]
• Zephyrs, The [α] (Gessner), [27]
• Zephyrs, The [β] (Gessner), [75]

Transcriber's Note

Obvious printer's errors have been fixed. Varied spelling of the personal names has been retained.

Fixed errors:

• page [ 20]—inserted a missing comma after 'Matthisson'
• page [ 49]—typo fixed: changed 'lossened' to 'loosened'
• page [ 51]—typo fixed: changed 'mispent' to 'misspent'
• page [ 62]—typo fixed: changed 'Labt' to 'Lobt'
• page [ 71]—typo fixed: changed 'stillet' to 'stiller'
• page [108]—inserted a missing single quote after 'at stake!'
• page [112]—typo fixed: changed 'withold' to 'withhold'
• page [131]—inserted a missing quote in front of "I—yes,"
• page [135]—typo fixed: changed 'happines' to 'happiness'
• page [141]—typo fixed: changed 'watry' to 'wat'ry'
• page [144]—typo fixed: changed 'hings' to 'hinges'
• page [145]—inserted a missing quote after 'Thomas?'
• page [147]—typo fixed: changed 'their' to 'there'
• page [165]—typo fixed: changed 'Burger's' to 'Bürger's'
• page [172]—inserted a missing quote after 'blushing day!'
• page [175]—inserted a missing quote after 'cask's out!'
• page [188]—typo fixed: changed 'yes' to 'eyes'
• page [188]—typo fixed: changed 'figer' to 'finger'
• page [194]—inserted a missing quote in front of 'I must see thee'
• page [204]—typo fixed: changed 'Helan' to 'Helen'
• page [204]—typo fixed: changed 'Bulow' to 'Bülov'
• page [205]—inserted a missing quote in front of 'Memoirs of'
• page [211]—typo fixed: changed 'Wollstencraft's' to 'Wollstoncraft's'
• page [217]—inserted a missing comma after 'Scholar's'
• page [229]—typo fixed: changed 'Willam' to 'William'