The Key, I-69, Mar. 10, 1798, Frederick Town.
[S. Gessner, Der zerbrochene Krug.]
LEONORA. [α].
A Ballad from Bürger.
The following translation (made some years since) of a celebrated piece, of which other versions have appeared, and are now on the point of appearing, possesses so much peculiar charm and intrinsic merit, that we are happy in being permitted to present it to our readers.
[The translation follows.]
Weekly Mag., I-221, Mar. 17, 1798, Phila.
[G. A. Bürger, Lenore.
Wm. Taylor of Norwich, Lenora.
Mo. Mag. and British Register, I-135, Mar. 1769, London.
M. G. Lewis, Tales of Wonder, 1801, London.
The translation appeared anonymously in the above mentioned, but was afterwards printed with several changes under the title Ellenore in Taylor's Historic Survey of German Poetry, II-40.
Also in Tales of Terror and Wonder, collected by M. G. Lewis. With an introduction by Henry Morley, 1887, London. Cf. [Preface].]