In the context of the German literary tradition's fall from grace in the US due to World War I, Sammons (emeritus, German literature, Yale U.) presents a major monograph on the origins and contents of
Includes Adalbert Stifer's Preface to Many-Colored Stones, Granite and Limestone; Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's The Jews Beech; Jeremias Gotthelf's The Black Spider; Franz Grillparzer's The Poor Music
Campaign in France 1792 -Siege of Mainz, Goethe's narrative of the unsuccessful campaign and the siege, has become a classic text for the history of Franco-German relations during the revolutionary pe
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is undoubtedly Germany's most significant poet of the nineteenth century, second in importance only to Goethe. Heine's poetry appeared in all major European languages and w