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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05

Volume 5 — Introductory material

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The Romantic Philosophers—Fichte, Schelling, and Schleiermacher. By Frank Thilly

Friedrich Schleiermacher

On the Social Element in Religion. Translated by George Ripley

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The Destiny of Man. Translated by Frederic H. Hedge Addresses to the German Nation. Translated by Louis H. Gray

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature. Translated by J. Elliot Cabot

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Later German Romanticism. By George H. Danton

Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano

The Boy's Magic Horn. Selections translated by Margarete Münsterberg. Were I a Little Bird The Mountaineer As Many as Sand-grains in the Sea The Swiss Deserter The Tailor in Hell The Reaper

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Fairy Tales. Translated by Margaret Hunt. The Frog King, or Iron Henry The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids Rapunzel Haensel and Grethel The Fisherman and His Wife

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Song of the Fatherland. Translated by H.W. Dulcken Union Song. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg

Theodor Körner

Men and Knaves. Translated by C.T. Brooks Lützow's Wild Band. Translated by Herman Montagu Donner Prayer During Battle. Translated by C.T. Brooks

Maximilian Gottfried von Schenkendorf

The Mother Tongue. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg Spring Greeting to the Fatherland. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg Freedom. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg

Ludwig Uhland

The Chapel. Translated by C.T. Brooks The Shepherd's Song on the Lord's Day. Translated by W.W. Skeat The Castle by the Sea. Translated by Henry W. Longfellow Song of the Mountain Boy. Translated by C.T. Brooks Departure. Translated by Percy MacKaye Farewell. Translated by Alfred Baskerville The Hostess' Daughter. Translated by W.W. Skeat The Good Comrade. Translated by W.W. Skeat The White Hart. Translated by H.W. Dulcken The Lost Church. Translated by W.H. Furness Charlemagne's Voyage. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg Free Art. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg Taillefer. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Suabian Legend. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg The Blind King. Translated by C.T. Brooks The Minstrel's Curse. Translated by W.H. Furness The Luck of Edenhall. Translated by Henry W. Longfellow On the Death of a Child. Translated by Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker

Joseph von Eichendorff

The Broken Ring. Translated by C.G. Leland Morning Prayer. Translated by Alfred Baskerville From the Life of a Good-for-nothing. Translated by Mrs. A.L.W. Wister

Adalbert von Chamisso

The Castle of Boncourt. Translated by Alfred Baskerville The Lion's Bride. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Woman's Love and Life. Translated by Alfred Baskerville The Women of Weinsberg. Translated by Bayard Taylor and Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani The Crucifix. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman The Old Singer. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman The Old Washerwoman. From the Foreign Quarterly The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl. Translated by Frederic H. Hedge

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

The Golden Pot. Translated by Frederic H. Hedge

Friedrich Baron de la Motte-Fouqué

Selections from Undine. Translated by F.E. Bunnett

Wilhelm Hauff

Cavalryman's Morning Song. Translated by Herman Montagu Donner The Sentinel. Translated by John Oxenford

Friedrich Rückert

Barbarossa. Translated by Bayard Taylor and Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani From My Childhood Days. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman The Spring of Love. Translated by Alfred Baskerville He Came to Meet Me. Translated by Bayard Taylor The Invitation. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Murmur Not. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman A Parable. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Evening Song. Translated by H.W. Dulcken Chidher. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg At Forty Years. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Before the Doors. Translated by H.W. Dulcken

August von Platen-Hallermund

The Pilgrim Before St. Just's. Translated by Lord Lindsay The Grave of Alaric. Translated by Bayard Taylor and Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani Remorse. Translated by Henry W. Longfellow Would I were Free as are My Dreams. Translated by Percy MacKaye Sonnet. Translated by Margarete Münsterberg

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