Excerpt from German Life and Literature: In a Series of Biographical Studies There are eastern rivers which are said to lose themselves in sand, and after a time to reappear, gathering beauty around their borders, but causing some difficulty to geographers on the ques tion of true sources. Something similar may be said of German literature. It would be too much to assert that those early pre ludes, those Middle-age warblings, with their quaint glimpses of Rhine and Harz - wald, which still mixed themselves, in faint but ...
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Excerpt from German Life and Literature: In a Series of Biographical Studies There are eastern rivers which are said to lose themselves in sand, and after a time to reappear, gathering beauty around their borders, but causing some difficulty to geographers on the ques tion of true sources. Something similar may be said of German literature. It would be too much to assert that those early pre ludes, those Middle-age warblings, with their quaint glimpses of Rhine and Harz - wald, which still mixed themselves, in faint but pleasing reminiscence, with the preachings of the friars and the strife of the Reformation, wholly ceased to have influence when the Reformation had done its work; but it is an undoubted fact that the later results of the Reformation did something to cut off the early literature of Germany from modern German literature, and to leave between the two an arid reach of sandy waste, un watered by the gracious stream of a truly national sentiment. This may seem a strong statement, but we believe it is so far susceptible of proof and illustration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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