German Influence in the English Romantic Period 1788–1818
With Special Reference to Scott, Coleridge, Shelley and Byron

Originally published in 1926, this book examines how interest in German literature in England grew immediately before and during the Romantic period.

F. W. Stokoe (Author)

9781107662742, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 October 2013

216 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.32 kg

Originally published in 1926, this book examines the extent to which interest in German literature in England grew immediately before and during the Romantic period, and the impact that German writers had on English authors of the time. Stokoe addresses many different types of English imitative literature, including propaganda and the works of Byron. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Anglo-German cultural exchange or Romanticism.

1. General introduction
2. Henry Mackenzie's lecture
3. Periodical literature 1788–1818, and two propagandists, William Taylor and Henry Crabb Robinson
4. Sir Walter Scott
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6. Percy Bysshe Shelley
7. Byron
Appendix 1. Scott's German books
Appendix 2. The date of the Lenore-reading by Mrs Barbauld
Appendix 3. Scott's unpublished translations
Appendix 4. The date of Shelley's earliest German studies
Appendix 5. Books translated
Bibliographical notes
General bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]