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ON DRYDEN'S RELATION TO GERMANY

IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

A DISSERTATION

SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS

AND LITERATURE IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE

OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

DEPARTMENT OF

GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

BY

MILTON D. BAUMGARTNER

PRESS OF

THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY

LANCASTER, PA.

[Reprinted from UNIVERSITY STUDIES, Vol. XIV., No. 4, 1914.]

I. ON DRYDEN'S RELATION TO GERMANY IN THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

BY MILTON D. BAUMGARTNER

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter I. Satires

1. Mac Flecknoe.

A. Translated and Imitated by Christian Wernicke in

Hans Sachs.

a. Hunold's connection with Hans Sachs.

b. Bodmer's connection with Hans Sachs.

c. Ramler's connection with Hans Sachs.

B. Criticism of Mac Flecknoe and Hans Sachs.

2. Other Satires of Dryden in Germany.

3. Essay on the Origin and Progress of the Satire Translated.

Chapter II. Essay on Dramatic Poesie....

1. Early Noted by German Critics.

2. Its relation to Lessing and his Seventeenth Literaturbrief.

3. German Criticism of the Essay after Lessing's Translation.

Chapter III. The Drama..

1. The Four Plays Translated in Germany.

A. The Spanish Friar.

B. The State of Innocence (Three Translations).

C. Oedipus.

D. All for Love (Two Translations).

2. The Tempest or the Enchanted Island a Source for

Bodmer's Noah.

Chapter IV. The Fables and Poetic-Classical Translations..

Chapter V. The Lyrics

1. Dryden's Fame as a Lyricist in England due largely to

Alexander's Feast.

A. Musical Compositions a Potent Factor in Perpetuat-

ing Alexander's Feast.

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