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Title: The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
Volume I.
Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.
In Twenty Volumes.

Author: Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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[Illustration: On the Way Toward the Grail. By Hans Thoma]

The
German Classics
of
The Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries

Masterpieces of German Literature
Translated into English

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Kuno Francke, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D.

In Twenty Volumes Illustrated

ALBANY, N.Y.
J.B. LYON COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

1913

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

Editor's Preface

Publishers Foreword

General Introduction.
By Richard M. Meyer

The Life of Goethe.
By Calvin Thomas

POEMS

Greeting and Departure.
Translated by Charles Wharton Stork

The Heathrose.
Adapted from the translation by E.A. Bowring

Mahomet's Song.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

Prometheus.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

The Wanderer's Night-Song.
Adapted from the translation by E.A. Bowring

The Sea-Voyage.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

To the Moon.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

The Fisherman.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

The Wanderer's Night-Song.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

The Erl-King.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

The Godlike.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

Mignon.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

Proximity of the Beloved One.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

The Shepherd's Lament.
Translated by W.E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin.

Nature and Art
Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman.

Comfort in Tears.
Translated by W.E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin

Epilog to Schiller's "Song of the Bell."
Translated by W.E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin

Ergo Bibamus.
Translated by E.A. Bowring

The Walking Bell.
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