The German Classics, Volume 1

Item:

German Classics Book

Title:

The German Classics: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Volume 1

Author:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Editor:

Kuno Francke

Printer:

The German Publication Society

Place of Printing:

New York

Date of Printing:

1913

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Author and Commentators

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).

Kuno Francke (1855-1930). German-born educator and historian. He was a professor at Harvard.

The Book

Volume 1 contains poems and dramas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Contents

• 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.

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