DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE. CHIEF REPRESENTATIVE OR WORK. DATES. SOME REMARKS. Poetry (other than drama): (_a_) Satirical (didactic) Tales _Reineke Fuchs_ _circa_ 1150 Formulation of Germanic Tales already taken up in France (_Roman de Renart_). Sebastian Brandt (_Narrenschiff_) 1494 Translated by Barclay (_Ship of Fools_). Other “Ships” followed. (_b_) Romantic (chivalric) poems _e.g._, _Rolandslied_ Later twelfth century The influence was inward from France. (_c_) Epic _Nibelungenlied_ Shaped about 1200 Klopstock (_Messias_) 1773 Influence from Milton. Wieland (_Oberon_) 1780 (_d_) Lyric The Minnesänger 1150-1300 Influence inward from France. The Meistersänger (Hans Sachs flor. 1550.) 1300-1550 _Volkslieder_ Fourteenth to sixteenth century Luther (_Hymns_) 1524 A chief influence on the _Goostly Songs_ of Coverdale. Göttingen Dichterbund (1772). Bürger (_Lenore_, etc.). Goethe 1749-1832 Schiller 1759-1805 Heine 1799-1856 Uhland 1787-1862 The influence of German ballads and lyrics becomes clear in Scott and Coleridge, and has affected all English work in this kind during the nineteenth century. Translations have been numerous. Drama Lessing (_Minna von Barnhelm_, _Nathan der Weise_) 1729-1781 Schiller (_Wallenstein_, _Wilhelm Tell_) Goethe (_Faust_, _Egmont_) The influence of Goethe is not calculable. The effect of his _Faust_ begins most clearly in Byron (_Manfred_). Legends, Novels, and Tales _Eulenspiegel_ Printed 1515 Translated by Copland (_Owlglasse_), 1550. References were frequent in sixteenth century. Cf. the French derivative _espiègle_. Stories of _Bishop Hatto_, _Fortunatas_, etc. Sixteenth century Familiarized in England in the same century. Stories of _Doctor Faustus_ 1587 Source of Greene’s _Friar Bacon_, and Marlowe’s _Dr. Faustus_. _Baron Münchhausen_ (partly by Bürger) Goethe, _Sorrows of Werther_ (1774) Influenced by Rousseau, but itself the source of “Wertherism.” ” _Wilhelm Meister_ Translated by Carlyle. Philosophy, Theology, etc. Luther (Pamphlets, Transl. of Bible, 1534) 1483-1546 Wide reaching effect on Protestant thought in England. Leibnitz (_Théodicée_, etc.) 1646-1716 Pope’s _Essay on Man_ is derived, through Bolingbroke, from thoughts of Leibnitz. Kant (_Critique of Pure Reason_, 1781) Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer Nineteenth century German philosophy has dominated England since the age of Coleridge (who borrowed from Schelling), De Quincey, etc. Criticism Lessing (_Laocoon_, 1776) Winckelmann (_Hist. of Ancient Art_, 1764) A. W.