The Works Of Bayard Taylor Vol 7 PDF Download

Three bound, handwritten manuscripts of lectures given by Bayard Taylor, as follows: 1. Amerikanische Dichter und Dichtkunst (American poets and poetry), dated Gotha, 2 December, 1872 (34 p.); 2. "Literature as an Art," dated New York, 20 October 1875 (39 p.); and 3. Ancient Egypt, undated (19 p.). The latter manuscript contains a reference to the year 1866 (p. 7); Taylor gave lectures on the subject of ancient Egypt during a lecture tour in fall 1874 to spring 1875. In the manuscript he takes ancient Egypt as an example of the relationship of the past to the present in the development of civilization, discussing the Rosetta Stone and its deciphering by Champollion; the work of the Egyptologists Karl Richard Lepsius and August Mariette; and Egypt in the Hebrew Bible. The lecture ends with a brief reference to ancient Greece as embodying progress vis-à-vis the conservatism of Egypt. Regarding the other two manuscripts, Taylor is known to have delivered the lecture on literature as art in New York in October 1875; and he gave the German lecture in Gotha, Thuringia, while visiting there in 1872. The manuscript of the German lecture was the subject of an article by Horst Frenz and Phillip Allison Shelley, entitled: Bayard Taylor's German lecture on American literature (Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, vol. 2, 1957, p. 89-133), which includes both a complete transcription and an English translation.