he various libraries visited,
particularly to Mr. Allan B. Slauson, of the Library of Congress. I
wish to thank Professor Daniel B. Shumway, of the University of
Pennsylvania, for helpful criticism, and Professor John L. Haney, of
the Philadelphia Central High School, for valuable information about
the German literary influence in England during the period under
discussion and for improvements suggested in the preparation of the
Introduction.

I am especially indebted to Professor Marion D. Learned, of the
University of Pennsylvania, at whose suggestion and under whose
inspiration the present investigation has been carried on.

EDWARD Z. DAVIS.
PHILADELPHIA, January, 1905.

CONTENTS.

I--INTRODUCTION 1

II--TRANSLATIONS OF GERMAN POETRY 21

III--TRANSLATIONS OF DUTCH, DANISH, NORWEGIAN AND
ICELANDIC POETRY, AND ORIGINAL POEMS REFERRING
TO THE GERMAN COUNTRIES 95

IV--LIST OF TRANSLATIONS OF GERMAN PROSE AND LIST OF
ORIGINAL ARTICLES ON THE GERMAN COUNTRIES 191

V--LIST OF MAGAZINES EXAMINED 215

INDEX 225

INTRODUCTION.

The important influence which German literature has exercised on
American culture and literature extends from the early part of the
nineteenth century. This influence was, in a measure, a continuation
of the interest and activity that had existed in England during the
last quarter of the eighteenth century. Prior to 1790, numerous
translations from Gellert, Wieland, Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe and
Schiller appeared from time to time, but it was not until William
Taylor of Norwich began to write, that the movement, which culminated
in the works of Coleridge, Carlyle and others, assumed definite
form.[1]

[Footnote 1: John L. Haney, _German Literature in England
before 1790_, in the _Americana Germanica_, IV, No. 2.

Cf. also, Dr. Haney's monograph, _The German Influence on
Samuel Taylor Coleridge_, Philadelphia, 1902.

Georg Herzfeld, _William Taylor von Norwich_, Halle a. S.
1897.]

American literature at this time was still subservient to that of
England and it is not surprising that the new literary impulse from
Germany should have found refl