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William Wordsworth And German Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Max J. Herzberg
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Extract

      But who shall parcel out
      His intellect by geometric rules,
      Split like a province into round and square?
      Who knows the individual hour in which
      His habits were first sown, even as a seed?
      Who that shall point as with a wand and say
      “That portion of the river of my mind
      Came from that fountain?“ (The Prelude, II, 203ff).

To what extent, it may profitably be asked, did German literature exert an influence, direct or indirect, upon the life and writings of Wordsworth?

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PMLA , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , June 1925, pp. 302 - 345
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1925

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References

1 Letters of the Wordsworth Family, III, 258-59.

2 Ibid., I, 118.

3 Journals, I, 25.

4 Works, III, 542.

5 Works of Coleridge, III, 548.

6 Professor Harper has found Wordsworth's sojourn recorded under the name “William Waetsford, ein Engländer” (cf. Harper's Wordsworth, I, 366 n.).

7 Cf. Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals, I, 27.

8 Letters of Coleridge, p. 273.

9 Robberds, Taylor of Norwich, I, 319f.

10 Einfluss der deutschen Litteratur, p. 30.

11 Wordsworth, p. 33.

12 Age of Wordsworth, p. 153.

13 Dictionary of National Biography, s. v., p. 117.

14 Cottle, Early Recollections, II, 25.

15 Fuller details are available in Bayard Quincy Morgan's exhaustive Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation.

16 Cf. Herzfeld, William Taylor von Norwich, pp. 3f.

17 Cf. Bertha Reed [Coffman], The Influence of Gessner upon English Literature, pp. 4f.

18 Monthly Review, 1776.

19 Cf Herzfeld, Op. cit., p. 5.

20 Ibid.

21 Beiträge, p. 307.

22 Cf. Singer, Einige englische Urtcile über die Bramen deutscher Klassiker, pp. 4f.

23 Cf.Herzfeld,p.8.

24 Cf. Singer, p. 10.

25 Bibliographical Manual, s. v.

26 Cf. Herzfeld, p. 7.

27 Cf. Brandi, Goethe Jahrhuch, III, 28f., and Singer, p. 15.

28 Cf. Singer, p. 13, and Brandi, p. 45.

29 Op. cit., p. 71.

30 Cf. Lowndes, Op. cit., s. v. Goethe.

31 Op. cil., p. 12.

32 Cf. Robberds, I, 92.

33 Ibid., p. 93f.

34 Ibid., 453.

35 The fifth in Knight's collection, Journals, I, 51f.

36 Op. cit., p. 59.

37 March 3, Op. cit., p. 95.

38 Journals, II, 188.

39 Op. cit., p. 246.

40 Op. cit., p. 225.

41 Letters of the Wordsworth Family, I, 419.

42 Works, II, 297.

43 Letters of Coleridge, pp. 96-7.

44 Brandi, Coleridge, pp. 253f.

45 P. 529.

46 Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, pp. 23-4.

47 Robberds, Op. cit., II, 96.

48 Ibid., 213-40.

49 Ibid., 255.

50 Ibid., 51.6.

51 German Influence on Coleridge, p. 33.

52 Prose Works, pp. 110, 252.

53 Ibid., 275.

54 P. 529.

55 Beaten Paths, II, 107f.

56 Ibid., 129.

57 Ibid., 141.

58 Wordsworth and the Coleridges, p. 38.

59 Wordsworth's Literary Criticism, p. 250.

60 Diary, I, 169-70.

61 As Miss Reed has already pointed out (Influence of Gessner, p. 71).

62 Christopher Wordsworth, Memoirs, II, 478.

63 Quoted Smith, Op. cit., pp. 248-49.

64 English Traits, p. 21.

65 Essays in Criticism, II, 155.

66 Diary, II, 439.

67 Ibid., 223f.

68 Ibid., II, 84, Jan. 1826.

69 Ibid., II, 10, 458.

70 Ibid., I, 305.

71 Ibid., 388-89.

72 Correspondence Southey-Bowles, p. 276.

73 Ibid., 275.

74 Cf. Robberds, II, 532.

75 Letters, IT, 94.

76 Works, I, 223, n.; IV, 420-21.

77 Works of Coleridge, III, 534.

78 English Goethe Society Pub., VII, 87f.

79 Cf. Alford, “Goethe's Earliest Critics in English,” English Goethe Society Pub., VII, 22f.

80 Robberds, I, 214.

81 Op. cit., p. 194.

82 Beiträge zur Geschichte des Einflusses der neueren deutschen Litteratur auf die Englische, p. 28, n.

83 Among My Books, pp. 223f.

84 Mod. Lang. Notes, XIV, 263f.

85 Fickle, p. 52.

86 Cf. Weddingen, Geschichte der Eiwwirkungen der deutschen Lüteratur atif die Litleraruren der übrigen euro-paisch.cn KultunSlker der Neuzeit, p. 22.

87 Romanticism in Germany, p. 136.

88 Ibid., pp. 141f.

89 English Poetry and German Philosophy, p. 19, n.

90 Op. cit., p. 156.

91 Letters, p. 683.

92 Ibid., p. 735.

93 Wordsworth's Poetical Works, I, 40.

94 Op. cit., p. 31.

95 Cf. Cottle, op. cit., I, 250.

96 Schiller's Poems and Dramas in England, pp. 13f.

97 Wordsworth's “Borderers.” Cf. also B. S. Allen, “Analogues of Wordsworth's The Borderers,” P.M.L.A., XXXVIII, 267-77.

97 Wordsworth's “Borderers”.

98 Cf. Christopher Wordsworth, op. cit., I, 96f.

99 Op. cit., p. 74.

100 Op. cit., p. 21.

101 Cf. Christopher Wordsworth, Op. cit., I, 189.

102 Op. cit., p. 41.

103 Weddington, op. cit., p. 22.

104 Schillers Beziehungen zur französischen und englischen Litteratur, p. 106

105 Op. cit., p. 40.

106 Op. cit., p. 3.

107 Quoted by Perry, “German Influence on English Literature,” Atlantic Monthly, XL, 136.

108 Studies, I, 233.

109 Op. Cit., p. 24.

110 Essays on English Literature, p. 201.

111 Op. cit., p. 257.

112 Works, II, 287.

113 Spirit of the Age, pp, 344f.