Schillers Dramas Poems In England PDF Download

Excerpt from Schiller's Dramas and Poems in England IN the following essay - for which a Certificate of Research has been granted by the University of Cambridge - I have attempted to give a short review of the various translations of Schiller's dramas and poems, to show how they were regarded at the time of their appearance, and, lastly, to give a brief account of their in uence on the master minds of the first half of the nineteenth century. For this purpose I. Have looked through all the translations which are to be found in Cambridge University Library and the British Museum; two or three I have not seen, as they have been lost or mislaid. I have gone through the most important monthlies from 17 92 - 3. Somewhat tedious task, but not without a good deal of interest. It will be remembered that, at the end of the eighteenth century, magazines of this kind were in a very rudi mentary state. The reviews were mostly written by mere hacks who had, as a rule, but little knowledge of the book which they proposed to criticise. To investigate the in uence of Schiller on nineteenth century style and thought in England is a task which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."