In 1801-2 he resided at Dresden, and edited, with A. W. Schlegel, the _Musenalmanach_. For the diffusion of a taste for the middle-age literature of Germany, Tieck made an important contribution by his publication of a selection of the _Minnelieder_ from the Swabian period, that is to say, the period of the German emperors during the dynasty of the Hohenstauffen family, with an elaborate preface, in which he called the attention of the Germans to their old poetry. In 1804 appeared his romantic drama of _The Emperor Octavian_, and in 1805 he published, in connexion with T. Schlegel, the works of his deceased friend Hardenberg (Novalis),[3] which may be classed among the most extraordinary phenomena of modern literature. The preface to this edition is entirely by Tieck. A long pause now ensued in the midst of his literary productiveness, during which he visited Rome. In 1814 and 1816 appeared his _Old English Theatre_, consisting of translations from our early drama, and in the same year he published the work to which, more than to any other, he owes his celebrity in this country, his _Phantasus_. The entire work has never been translated, but the tales which are introduced into it, such as the _Blond Eckbert_ and the _Trusty Eckart_, are generally known. Another contribution to the study of the old German literature he made by his edition of Ulrich von Lichtenstein’s _Frauendienst_ (service of ladies), a kind of romance, by a celebrated Minnesänger, and a collection of plays under the title of Old German Theatre. In 1818 he visited London, where he was received with great respect, and employed his time in making collections for the study of Shakspeare, in Schlegel’s translation of whom he has taken an important part. Since 1821 he has chiefly been engaged with a series of novels, which are widely different from his former manner, and he is now (we believe) resident at Berlin. The tales from the _Phantasus_ being already so generally known, one of a totally different kind has been given in this volume. The powerful tale of the _Klausenburg_ is from Tieck’s collected novels.