Publisher's Synopsis
This is a collection of translations of German literature and criticism written between 1775 and 1836, selected not only for their literary merit but for their illumination of important literary and intellectual movements of the time - storm and stress, classicism, and various developments of Romanticism. This text provides an introduction for English readers interested in this period. It concentrates on the less readily available works, and has a substantial selection on lyric poems. The translations are accompanied by facing-page texts in the original German.
