... contrives with amazing success to achieve comparable effects in English, notwithstanding all linguistic and stylistic discrepancies between the two tongues. MARGARETSCHLAUCH University of Warsaw Goethe, The Poet. By KARL...

...Curtis C. D. Vail Rolf King, Calvin Brown, and Erich Funke. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1950. Pp. xxvii + 252. $5.00. Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Curtis C. D. Vail 313 Goethe on Human...

..., 1976. 340 pp. $17.50. The novel fascinated Goethe throughout his life. He read and commented on innumerable works in the genre from Cervantes through Scott and Sten- dhal, and over a period of more than half a century, he wrote and rewrote four novels of his own. Of these only the first...

... and rather isolated letters to Karl Philipp Moritz, Goethe, Wieland, and Knebel fail to establish anything like a common bond between him and these men. Another peculiarity of Jean Paul’s correspondence is his apparent reluc- tance to discuss aesthetic or literary problems with his friends...

...Wolfgang Leppmann Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 SHAPING THE MODERN GOETHEBILD THE YEARBOOK OF THE GOETHE SOCIETY By WOLFGANGLEPPMANN The first issue of the Goetlze Yearbook appeared in 1880. At present simply...

...Brian A. Rowley Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE “AGES OF MAN” IN GOETHE AND GEORGE By BRIANA. ROWLEY Stefan George’s “Vogelschau,” first published at the end of AZgabal (1892), and later at the end of the volume in the collected...

... upon their practical application. GEORGEFENWICK JONES Princeton University Erscheinungsformen der Sorge bei Goethe. By HEINZMOENKEMEYER. Giessen : Wilhelm Schmitz Verlag, Beitrage zur deutschen Philologie, Band 2, 1955. Pp. 198...

.... JOHN ALEXANDERKELLY Haverford College I1 Dramma di Margherita; Interpretazione dal Goethe. By CARLO RUDINO.Milano: Casa editrice Ceschina, 1947. Pp. 95. L.180. This translation of the “Gretchen-Tragodie” ( Fuust I, lines 2605- end) is offered as a specimen of Rudino’s complete...

...August Closs Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ∗ Delivered as one of the Walker-Ames lectures at the invitation of the University of Washington, Seattle, April 9, 1948. GOETHE AND KIERKEGAARD’ ( 1749-1832) (1813-1855...

...Carl Hammer, Jr Bassermann Dieter. Berlin: Minerva-Verlag, 1947. Pp. 161. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 REVIEWS Goethe’s Autobiography: Poetry and Truth from My Own Life. By JOHANN WOLFGANGVON GOETHE.Translated by R. 0...

...C. B. Schomaker; F. H. Reinsch J. Alan Pfeffer. New York: King's Crown Press, Columbia University, 1948. Pp. 190. $3.50. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 C. B. Schomaker and F. H. Reirisch 403 The Proverb in Goethe. By J. ALANPFEFFER...

...John Hennig Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 GOETHE AND CANNING By JOHN HENNIG The news of George Canning’s death produced an immense sensation, not only in his country but throughout Europe, where his name...

... to be dramatized, and in this regard Germany showed the greatest productivity, but, as Mr. Atkins notes, “only when the playwrights disregarded the character of Werther . . . in Goethe’s novel did they . . . achieve dramatic movement or . . . suspense.” Perhaps one of the best results in Ger- many...

... of the references tedious. A. M. SAUERLANDER University of Wushington The Dream in Gerhart Hauptmann. By JOHN JACOB WEISERT.New York: King’s Crown Press, 1949. Pp. 120. v.25. Gerhart Hauptmann and Goethe. By SIEGFRIEDH. MULLER. New York...

... burgerlichen Bddung. By PAULRILLA. Berlin: Bruno Henschel & Sohn, 1949. Pp. 88. DM 3.50. Paul Rilla has set out to debunk-not Goethe, but the picture of Goethe as drawn by the literary historians. Their work affords a keen-eyed critic a wonderful outing. Applying what he calls the Marx...

...John Hennig Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 A NOTE ON GOETHE AND FRANCIS BACON By JOHN HENNIG In the chapter on Francis Bacon in his book Goethe’s Knowledge of English Literature Dr. Boyd said: “Very little information is available...

...Ian C. Loram Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 GOETHE AS EDITOR OF HIS JOURNALS By IANC. LORAM It would not be far from the truth to say that, of all the administra- tive ventures with which Goethe was associated during his life...

...John Hennig Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 THE LITERARY RELATIONS BETWEEN GOETHE AND THOMAS HOOD By JOHN HENNIG The only comment on Goethe’s review of Hood’s Whims and Oddities is that prefacing the reprint...

...Harold Jantz Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 GOETHE AND AN ELIZABETHAN POEM By HAROLDJANTZ In the literary life of Goethe there are a number of interesting little episodes which have never been adequately clarified. One of them...

... burden of careful attention to detail which is hardly avoidable. The stain of a thesis is seldom removed by any form of revision, no matter how thorough. The scope of Professor Muller’s plan would actually demand the joint efforts of a trained Goethe scholar and a trained Hauptmann...