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Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810

INDEX.

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A Dutch Proverb, 121, 138

A Fable (Gellert), 28

A General View of Switzerland, etc., 136

A German Drinking Song, 70

A Hist. of Amer. Lit. (M. C. Tyler), 11

A Humble Imitation, etc., 155

A literal translation of the King of Prussia's Ode, 18, 105

A Sketch of the Alps, etc., 158

A Song (Frederick), 18

A Sonnet (Jacobi), 68, 85

Adams, C. F., 3

Adams, J. Q., 2, 3, 204

Address at the Opening of the Bechstein Library (M. D. Learned), 2

"Adelio," 5, 16, 65, 66

Against Faustus, 18, 155

Albert of Werdendorff, 154

Allston, Washington, 188

Almanacs, 6, 11

Ambrosio or the Monk (M. G. Lewis), 5, 35, 140, 146

American Mag.; or Monthly View, etc., 14

American Museum, 8

American Philosophical Society, 9, 215

American Revolution, 18

Americana Germanica, 1, 3

Aminta (Gessner), 58

Amyntas [α] (Gessner), 25

Amyntas [β] (Gessner), 35

Annandius, 95, 99

Apparitionist, The (Schiller's Geisterseher), 4

Appointment Disappointed, 177

Bacchanalian, The, 22

Bancroft, George, 3

Battle of Hohenlinden, cf. On the Battle of Hohenlinden.

Benevolence (Gellert), 17, 30, 58, 65

Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters (J. B. McMaster), 14

Berlin, University of, 3

Boston Public Library, 9, 215

Bradford, Andrew, 13

British Museum, 17, 215

Broken Pitcher, The (Gessner), 32

Bruggeman, L. W., 17

Bürde, 5, 20, 63

Bürger, 5, 18, 19, 20, 29, 31, 32, 34, 44, 68, 76, 80, 85, 146, 165, 169

Burlesque on the Style, etc., 5, 18, 143, 146

By the Late King of Prussia, cf. Relaxation of War.

Campbell, Thomas, vii, 6, 75, 153, 171, 180

Carlyle, 1

Carnation, The (Gessner), 75

Carr's Northern Summer, 161

Channing, Geo. D., 1

Channing, W. E., 1, 17

Characteristic Sketch, etc., 128

Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter, 19, 181

Charlotte's Soliloquy, etc., 5, 19, 125

Chase, The (Bürger), Trans. by Scott, 5, 34, 76

Check-list of American Magazines, etc. (P. L. Ford), 8

Claudine von Villa Bella (Goethe), 20, 80

Cloud King, The, 18, 19, 140, 146

Cogan's, Dr., Travels on the Rhine, 71

Coleridge, 1

Collyer, Mary, 58

Cooper, J. F., 3

Cow Boy's Chaunt (Ranz des Vaches), 19, 180

Cramer, William, cf. Creamer, Wm.

Creamer (or Cramer), William, 1

Damon and Daphne (Gessner), 51

Dancing Bear, The (Gellert), 57, 161

Daphne-Chloe, cf. First Idyl of Gesner.

Death of Abel (Gessner), 4, 20

Death of Werter, 19, 126

Descent of Odin, 128, 175

Dictionary of Books Relating to America (Sabin), 216, 219, 223

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Goethe), 19, 24

Die Zauberlôte (Mozart's Zauberflöte), 75, 85

Dunlap, W., 27

Dwight, Henry E., 3

Early Influence of German Literature in America (F. H. Wilkens), 3

Earth's Division, The, 17

Ella, 130, 136

Ellenore, cf. Leonora [α], 32

Emerson, 3

Emilia Galotti (Lessing), Trans. by Fanny Holycroft, 4

England, viii, 1, 3, 4, 14, 19, 20, 76

Epigrams (Lessing), 71

Epitaph by Haller, 21

Erl-King, The (Goethe), vii, 5, 18, 20, 34, 35, 140

Erl-King's Daughter, The, 5, 18, 35, 140

Everett, A. H., 3

Everett, Edward, 1, 2

Fable (Gellert), 27

Fables et Contes (Gellert), 17

Faust, 13, 18, 155

Fire King, The, 18, 19, 140, 146

First Idyl of Gesner—Daphne-Chloe, 27

Fly, The (Gellert), 54

Follen, Karl, 1

Ford, P. L., 8

Foreign Influence upon Education in the U. S. (B. A. Hinsdale), 2

Foreign Poetical, Political Summary, 170

Forget Me Not, 82

Fowler, The (Schickaneder), 75, 85

Franklin, Benjamin, 2, 13, 14

Frederick and Alice (Goethe), 20, 80

Frederick, the Great, 16, 18, 96, 99, 101, 105, 106, 109, 110, 112, 113, 116, 117, 119, 121, 138, 140, 158, 161

Friendship, 36

From the German, 56

From the German of Gesner, 81

From the German of Lessing, 73

From the Runic, 173

Galleret, cf. Gellert.

Geisterseher (Schiller), 4

Gellert, 1, 5, 16, 17, 19, 20, 27, 28, 30, 54, 56, 57, 58, 65, 161

General Magazine, The, 13

German as a Culture Element, etc. (M. D. Learned), 3

German Influence, The, on Samuel Taylor Coleridge (J. L. Haney), 1

German Instruction in American Schools (L. Viereck), 2

German Lit. in Eng. before 1790 (J. L. Haney), 1

Germany, vii, 1, 2, 3, 6, 14, 15, 17, 19, 153, 155, 191

Gessner, 4, 5, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 29, 32, 35, 36, 39, 41, 43, 51, 58, 61, 65, 73, 75, 80, 81, 85

Goethe, 1, 5, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 34, 80

Golden Verse of Pythagoras, 6

Gothic Castle, The, 138

Göttingen, University of, 1, 2, 3

Göttingische Anzeigen, 2

Gray, Thomas, vii, 18, 128, 159, 175

Grim, King of the Ghosts, 18, 152

Guardian Spirit, The (Matthisson), 67

Haller, 5, 16, 20, 21, 25, 27, 78

Haney, John L., 1

Hans Letter to Notchie, 151

Harvard University, 1, 3, 215

Haunting of Havardur, cf. Runic Ode.

Hawkesworth, Dr., 121, 161

Heidelberg, University of, 3

Helmuth, J. H. C., 2

Herbert, Mr., 77

Herder, 35, 140

Hermann und Dorothea (Goethe), 13

Herzfeld, Georg, 1, 20

Hinsdale, B. A., 2

Historic Survey of German Poetry (Taylor), 29, 32

Hoffnung ("Adelio"), 16, 65

Holcroft, Fanny, 4

Hooper, W., 25, 29, 35, 65, 73, 75

Hope ("Adelio"), 66

Hopkinson, Francis, 1, 17, 194

Hrim Thor; or the Winter King, 18, 152

Idyls (Gessner), 4, 5, 16, 20

Invitation to Joy, 59

Jacobi, 5, 20, 68, 85

James, E. J., 2

Journal of a Tour through Silesia (J. Q. Adams), 2, 204

Kiampe Viiser, 35

King of Prussia, cf. Frederick the Great.

King of Prussia's Ode, 18, 109

Klopstock, 1, 4, 5, 6, 20, 66, 75

Kotzebue, 5, 20, 64

Krummacher, 15, 16

Kunze, J. C., 2

Ladd, Dr., 125, 128, 130

Lass of Fair Wone, The (Bürger), 29, 32, 80

Learned, M. D., 2, 3

Leftly, C., 163, 170

Leiden, Die, des jungen Werthers (Goethe), cf. Werter.

Lenore (Bürger), cf. Leonora, 19, 146

Leonora [α] (Bürger), trans. by Wm. Taylor, 5, 19, 32, 34

Leonora [β] (Bürger), 44

Leonora [γ] (Bürger), 68

Lessing, 1, 4, 5, 19, 20, 33, 60, 71, 73

Letter LXI of the Sorrows of Werter Versified, 16, 19, 23

Letters of Charlotte, The, 19

Lewis, M. G., vii, 5, 15, 32, 34, 35, 80, 140, 146, 147, 152, 154, 162

Library of Congress, 9, 215

Literary Hist. of the Amer. Revolution (M. C. Tyler), 10

Literary Industry of the Germans, 17

Longfellow, 3

Lycas (Gessner), 36

McMaster, J. B., 14

Matthisson, 5, 20, 29, 67

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams (C. F. Adams), 3

Messiah (Klopstock), 4, 5, 66

Mirtil and Thirsis (Gessner), 21

Miscellanies, 7

Monk, The, cf. Ambrosio.

Montgomery, James, 76, 163, 169, 175, 176

Monthly Review (London), 3

Morley, Henry, vii, 32

Morning, The (Haller), 16, 25, 27

Morning Song (Gessner), 81

Morning Song of Praise (Patzke), 62

Moss Rose, The (Krummacher), 15, 16

Mozart, 76, 178

Mr. Voltaire's Letter, etc., 18, 116

Myrtil and Daphne (Gessner), 41

Myrtillo (Gessner), 39

Name Unknown, The (Klopstock), by T. Campbell, 6, 75

Narcissa, 19, 125

Navigation (Gessner), 16, 61

New England Kalendar, 13

New Idylles by Gessner, cf. Hooper, W.

New Idyls, by S. Gessner, 5

New Weekly Journal, 13

Newport Mercury, 6, 75

Newspaper, The, 6, 10, 11

Nosegay, The (Gessner), 65

Oberon, cf. Wieland.

Ode on the late Victory, etc., 5, 18, 99

Ode to Adversity (T. Gray), 18, 159

Ode to Death (Frederick), 18, 121, 161

Ode to Evening, 71

Ode to Spring, 62

Ode to the German Drama, 18, 159

Odes from the Norse and Welch Tongues (T. Gray), 175

Old Man, The (Gessner), 21, 27

On a Cargo of French Muffs, etc., 108

On reading in the publick Papers, etc., 18, 112

On Reading the Sorrows of Werter, 19, 129

On Singing Mozart's "Vergiss Me Nicht," 178

On the Battle of Hohenlinden (T. Campbell), 171, 180

On the compleat Victory, etc., 18, 96

On the Death, etc. (T. Campbell), 153

On the Death of Mr. Handel, 154

On the glorious Victory, etc., 18, 101

Orlando, 139

Paint King, The (W. Allston), 18, 19, 183, 189

Parody on Bürger's Earl Walter, 18, 76, 165

Parson's Daughter, The (Bürger), cf. Lass of Fair Wone, The.

Passage from Klopstock's Messiah, 66

Patzke, 5, 20, 62

Peasant of the Alps, 134, 140

Pennsylvania Gazette, 13

Pennsylvania, University of, vii, 2, 194, 215

Philadelphia, 8, 215

Philadelphia Library Company, 9, 215

Philadelphia Magazines, etc. (A. H. Smyth), 8, 11

Phila. Repository, 16

Phila. Weekly Mercury, 13, 14

Philandreia, 96

Poem of Haller Versified, The, 78

Poetry, German lyric, 15

Port Folio, 3, 8

Prayer of Frederick II, etc., 18, 158

Pringle, Mr., 2

Pro Patri Mori (Bürger), 31

Prologue to a Play, 95

Pye, J. H., 78

Quiz, 178

Ranz des Vaches, 16, 19, 156, 176

Relaxation of War (Frederick), 18, 110, 138, 140

Remarks on National Literature (W. E. Channing), 1

Report of the Commissioner of Education, 2

Royal Comet, The, 18, 113

Runic Ode, 163, 170

Sabin, cf. Dictionary of Books, etc.

Scandinavian Hero, The, 157

Schickeneder, 5, 76, 85

Schiller, 1, 4, 13, 19

Scott, Sir Walter, vii, 5, 15, 34, 76, 80

Seward, Mr., 159

"Sheller," 5, 82

Shoe Pinches, The (Kotzebue), 64

Silesia, cf. Journal of a Tour Through S.

Smyth, A. H., 8, 11

Soldier of the Alps, The, 179

Song (Jacobi), 85

Song (M. G. Lewis), 162

Song, trans. by Mr. Herbert, 77

Song—from the German, 73

Song of a Runic Bard, The, 173

Song of the Swiss in a Strange Land, 19, 176, 177, 181

Sorrows of Switzerland, The, 171

Sotheby, 2

Speech of the Prince of Brunswick, etc., 107

Speech on the learned languages (Hon. Francis Hopkinson), 17, 194

Spencer, W. R., cf. Leonora [γ].

Squeaking Ghost, The, 18, 174, 182, 188

Stanley, J. T., cf. Leonora [γ].

Stimmen der Völker (Herder), 35, 140

Suicide, The (Gellert), 56

Swallow, The (Lessing), 33

Swedish Cottage, The, 161

Swiss Emigrant's Dream of Home, The, 19

Swiss Exiles' Song, The, 19

Swiss Peasant, 169

Switzerland, vii, 16, 19, 136, 163, 169, 171, 175, 191

Switzer's Return, The, 19

Switzer's Song of Home, The, 19

Tales of Terror and Wonder (M. G. Lewis), vii, 5, 32, 34, 35, 80, 140, 146, 152, 154

Tales of Wonder (M. G. Lewis), cf. Tales of Terror and Wonder.

Taylor, William, of Norwich, 1, 5, 15, 29, 32, 69. Cf. also, William Taylor von Norwich.

Tell, Wilhelm, cf. Wilhelm Tell.

Third Psalm paraphrased, etc., 18, 106

Thyrsis and Chloe (Gessner), 25

Ticknor, George, 3

To a Little Charmer (Lessing), 33

To Chloe (Gesner), 85

Trans. from Lessing, 60

Trans. from the German, 83

Trans. from the Idyls of Gessner, 43

Trans. of an Epistle, etc. (Frederick), 18, 119

Travels in the North of Germany (H. E. Dwight), 3

Trust in God, 6

Tschink, 4

Tyler, M. C., 10, 11

Universal Song of Praise (Bürde), 63

U. S. Mag. and Democratic Rev., 3

Usurer, The (Gellert), 17

"Van Vander Horderclogeth," 5, 83

Verses by the Late King of Prussia, cf. Relaxation of War.

Victim of Magical Delusion (Tschink), 4

Viereck, L., 2

Virtue Rewarded (Gessner), 29

Voltaire's letter, cf. Mr. Voltaire's letter.

Wallenstein, 13

Wanderer of Switzerland, The, vii, 76, 163, 169, 175

Water King, The, trans. by M. G. Lewis, 5, 18, 140, 146, 147

Webbe, John, 13, 14

Werter, 5, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 34, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 141, 158, 181

Werter's Epitaph, 19, 127, 130, 158

Werter's Farewell to Charlotte, 19, 141

Werther (Goethe), cf. Werter.

West Indies, The, and Other Poems (James Montgomery), 176

Wieland, 1, 2

Wild Hunter, The (Bürger), 85

Wild Huntsman, The (Bürger), cf. Chase, The.

Wilhelm Tell (Schiller), 13, 19

Wilkens, F. H., 3, 4, 5, 19, 20

William Taylor von Norwich (Georg Herzfeld), 1

William Tell, cf. Wilhelm Tell.

Winter, 18, 95

Winter King, The, cf. Hrim Thor.

Wish, The (Matthisson), 29

Wolf King, The, 18, 147

Wooden Leg, The [α] (Gessner), 73

Wooden Leg, The [β] (Gessner), 80

Wordsworth, William, vii, 155

Works of Thomas Gray, ed. by Edmund Gosse, 128

Works of W. E. Channing, The, 1

Written in Germany, etc., 153

Written in Germany, etc. (W. Wordsworth), 155

Zephyrs, The [α] (Gessner), 27

Zephyrs, The [β] (Gessner), 75

Transcriber's Note

Obvious printer's errors have been fixed. Varied spelling of the personal names has been retained.

Fixed errors:

page 20—inserted a missing comma after 'Matthisson'

page 49—typo fixed: changed 'lossened' to 'loosened'

page 51—typo fixed: changed 'mispent' to 'misspent'

page 62—typo fixed: changed 'Labt' to 'Lobt'

page 71—typo fixed: changed 'stillet' to 'stiller'

page 108—inserted a missing single quote after 'at stake!'

page 112—typo fixed: changed 'withold' to 'withhold'

page 131—inserted a missing quote in front of "I—yes,"

page 135—typo fixed: changed 'happines' to 'happiness'

page 141—typo fixed: changed 'watry' to 'wat'ry'

page 144—typo fixed: changed 'hings' to 'hinges'

page 145—inserted a missing quote after 'Thomas?'

page 147—typo fixed: changed 'their' to 'there'

page 165—typo fixed: changed 'Burger's' to 'Bürger's'

page 172—inserted a missing quote after 'blushing day!'

page 175—inserted a missing quote after 'cask's out!'

page 188—typo fixed: changed 'yes' to 'eyes'

page 188—typo fixed: changed 'figer' to 'finger'

page 194—inserted a missing quote in front of 'I must see thee'

page 204—typo fixed: changed 'Helan' to 'Helen'

page 204—typo fixed: changed 'Bulow' to 'Bülov'

page 205—inserted a missing quote in front of 'Memoirs of'

page 211—typo fixed: changed 'Wollstencraft's' to 'Wollstoncraft's'

page 217—inserted a missing comma after 'Scholar's'

page 229—typo fixed: changed 'Willam' to 'William'

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