German American Annals, Volume 15; Volume 19German American Historical Society, 1917 |
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Page 127 - Bulwer-Lytton (d. 1873), also marked the end of the old and the beginning of the new...
Page 186 - Johannes Schlaf: Walt Whitman, Vol. 18 of Die Dichtung (1904). Of this work Lessing says (Jour, of Eng. and Ger. Phil., X, p. 91) : "This little book is an unparalleled example of high-handed arrogance, cowardly imposition and utter ignorance." Lessing further declares Schlaf to have been completely incompetent as a critic of Whitman, not having read more than fifteen per cent, of his work and having but a very imperfect knowledge of the English language. " Leipzig, 1880. " M. fd L. d. A., Sept....
Page 180 - Literatur (Berlin, 1891), a work which for comprehensiveness, accuracy, and appreciativeness compares favorably with any of our own text-books on American literature. I would also invite your attention to Dr. Knortz's admirable biography of Longfellow and his no less excellent biography of Whitman. But, assuredly, mere critical interest in a writer does not necessarily prove that that writer is being widely read. We know, all too well, how much extravagant...
Page 126 - ... book-stands, almost exceeds belief. The novel in its various forms is now the chief literary diet of the American people. The causes of this great activity will be more apparent to the historian with a longer perspective, yet they are not wholly hidden from the contemporary critic. Says Stedman : The elder poets "fully met the need for idyllic verse, relating to home, patriotism, religion, and the work-day life of an orderly people. They did not scrutinize and vividly present the coils of individual...
Page 125 - Archimedes, who said that if he had a lever long enough, and a place to stand, he could move the world.
Page 129 - Two works had appeared before Engel's: Ernst Otto Hopp's Unter dem Sternenbanner (Streifzüge in das Leben und die Literatur der Amerikaner), (Bromberg, 1877), und Rudolf Doehn's Aus dem amerikanischen Dicht cncald (Leipzig, 1881). In 1891 there appeared the most pretentious work of all, Karl Knortz' Geschichte der nordamerikanischen Literatur (2 vols., Berlin, Lustenöder).
Page 132 - ... recognized by most of their readers as American and not British, will be developed in the course of this study. CHAPTER II. CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY. (a) Certain Limitations. In making a chronological study of the American novel in Germany after 1870, certain limitations must be borne in mind. It would be useless to make the treatment absolutely exhaustive, for the reason that there are almost countless American authors who appear only in our nickel- and dime-novel form, but are nevertheless translated...
Page 81 - In addition it will be the organ of the German American Historical Society, the National German American Alliance, and the Union of Old German Students in America.
Page 163 - Head of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati.