Quainted to carry out a design somewhat re. Only previous attempts with which I am ac. Elze, - one of themĬontained in the introduction to his edition of theĪlplionsus, - which, excepting perhaps the melan-Ĭholy abortions of the late William Bell, are the
Ward, Wagner, Oesterley, and, finally, to the twoĪdmirable essays of Prof K. Shakspcre Societies, to the editorial work of Dyce, Publications of the Percy, Shakspeare, and New Quarians, - Thoms, Wright and Kemble, to various Most to a somewhat old-fashioned school of anti. Goedeke, nowhere so invaluable as for exactly this Lectures, still less to the invaluable Grimdriss of Latin drama and the novel in scattered articles and Work done by Scherer and Erich Schmidt on the Lerslcben, Oesterley, Schade, the brilliant incidental Among other aids to the study of the Germanīranch of the subject I need scarcely refer to theĬlassical editions of particular books by Zarncke,Īdelbert v. Hardly have attempted to trace its reflexions in our This remarkable literature, without which I should Literature but I owe to their luminous and vividĮxposition the sense for the peculiar power of I do not think that much of theīook in its present shape is directly due to them,Įven where it deals most immediately with German Of listening (in the last case as a casual visitor)Īt Vienna and Berlin, in the summers of 1881Īnd 1882. Geiger and Schercr, tc which I had the privilege The German literature of the sixteenth century,īy three masters in it, Professors Erich Schmidt, Owes its original stimulus to a few lectures upon The egoism of saying that the present volume Jects can acknowledge their indebtedness to those Who venture to write books on unfamiliar sub. Obligations is one of the few ways in which those Indulgence which I have enjoyed during its pro-Īn unusually explicit statement of literary Scheme of investigation, but for the extreme My acknowledgments to the Council, not merelyįor thus enabling me to follow out a long-formed Of one of the Berkeley fellowships of the OwensĬollege and I have, at the outset, to express Qiic le sazietier Sachs init eii gloire autrefois.ĬAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BV C. LATE BERKELEY FELLOW OF THE UWENS COLLEGE, Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany (1886) by Charles Herford Luther is, for us, solely the author of Eine feste Burg, Melanchthon, the deviser of the legend of Eve and her unlike children, immortalised in drama by Birck and Sachs." Protestantism, the most colossal of all witnesses to 'German influence,' is of interest here only as it took shape in hymns, dialogues and dramas. With the transmission of doctrines or ideas, I am concerned only so far as they coloured or inspired literature imaginative or poetic in form. It is exclusively a literary influence with which I propose to deal. I venture to emphasise the epithet in the last clause. To these isolated points I have endeavoured to supply in some degree both the intervening detail and the continuous background in other words, to give a connected and intelligible account of the phases of German literary influence upon England in the sixteenth century. "The present volume is an attempt to lessen the obscurity of that tract of international literature in which Barclay's Ship of Fools, Marlowe's Faustus, and Decker's Gul's Horn-booke are luminous but isolated points.
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