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Table of Contents Table of Contents INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS MANN Ganymede 13 Trans: Gustav Arlt xi Trans: Theodore Martin Forever Young 14 POEMS OF YOUTH AND LOVE Trans: Stephen Spender Treasure Trove 14 To the Moon 3 Trans: Theodore Martin Trans: John S. Dwight Presence 15 Prometheus 4 Trans: E. A. Bowing Trans: Theodore Martin s Wanderer's Night-Songs 16 The Bliss ofSorrow 6 Trans: Henry Wadsivorth Trans: E. A. Bowing Longfellow The Rose 6 WhoYearning Knows 16 Trans: James Clarence Mangan Trans: Stephen Spender The Son ofthe Muses 7 The Limits ofMan 17 Trans: John S. Dwight Trans: John S. Dwight May Song 8 Mignon 18 Trans: Theodore Martin Trans: Thomas Carlyle Calm ofthe Sea 9 Noble Be Man 19 Trans: Paul Dyrsen Trans: Stephen Spender Good Voyage 9 Trans: Paul Dyrsen DRAMA Greeting and Departure IO Faust (PART ONE) 23 Trans: Charles Wharton Stork Trans: G. M. Cookson The Gods Give Everything II Egmont 175 Trans: Stephen Spender Trans: Anna Sivanwick Night Song 11 Iphigenia inTauris 275 Trans: E. A. Bowing Trans: Anna Swanwick The Loved One Ever Near 12 BALLADS Trans: John S. Dwight NorWill These Tears Bethe Last The Erl-King 343 Trans: Stephen Spender 12 Trans: Sir Walter Scott http://d-nb.info/365916153 Table of Contents The Dance ofDeath 344 Trans: Theodore Martin AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING The Godand the Bajadere 346 From Poetry and Truth Trans: Stephen Spender Frankfurt under French The Sorcerer's Apprentice 348 Occupation 547 Trans: Theodore Martin Tra?is: John Oxenford and Rev. Before the Judge 351 A. J. W. Morrison; revised by Trans: Stephen Spender Minna Steele Smith The Fisher 3 52 Trans: Theodore Martin LITERARY ESSAYS The Bride of Corinth 353 Shakespeare adInfinitum 57J Trans: W. E. Aytoun and Trans: Randolph Bourne Theodore Martin Byron's Manfred 586 Trans: Randolph Bourne FICTION Byron's Don Juan 588 Trans: Randolph. Bourne TheSorrows ofYoung Werther AnEssay on Granite 589 Trans: William Rose 361 Trans: Norbert Guterman From Wilhelm Meister's LETTERS Apprenticeship Trans: Norbert Guterman A Production of Hamlet 449 Trans: Thomas Carlyle Tothe Schonkopf Family From Wilhelm Meister's Travels in Leipzig 595 The New Melusina 475 ToJohann Gottfried Herder in Trans: Thomas Carlyle Buckburg 596 From Elective Affinities ToJohann Georg Christian TheTwo Strange Children Kestner 597 Trans: D. W. Niles 494 ToCharlotte vonStein 598 ToHis Mother 599 ToJohann Kaspar Lavater in TRAVEL SKETCHES Zurich 600 ToKarl Ludwigvon Knebel 600 From Travels In Italy ToDuke Karl Augustus 601 Philip Neri, The Humorous ToCharlotte vonStein 602 Saint 5 °5 ToCharlotte vonStein 602 Trans: Rev. A. J. W. Morri­ ToChristiane Vulpius 604 son and Charles Nisbet ToSchiller in Jena 604 TheRoman Carnival 517 ToSchiller 606 Trans: Rev. A. J. W. Morri­ ToKarl Friedrich Zelter in son and Charles Nisbet Berlin 606 VIII Table of Contents ToLili vonTiirckheim in It Is Good 649 Strassburg 607 Trans: E. A. Bowring ToZelter 607 The Unlimited 6jo ToKarl Ludwig vonKnebel 608 Trans: E. A. Bowring ToAugust von Goethe 609 Primeval Orphic Sayings ToMarianne von Willemer in . Destiny 6 50 Baden-Baden 610 Trans: F. Melian Stawell and ToZelter 611 Nora Purtscher Wydenbruck ToZelter 612 Necessity 651 ToSulpiz Boisseree inMunich Trans: F. Melian Stawell and 612 Nora Purtscher Wydenbruck ToWilhelm von Humboldt 613 Hope 651 Trans: F. Melian Stawell and PROVERBS IN RHYME Nora Purtscher Wydenbruck Trans: Isidor Schneider 615 Chance 651 PROVERBS IN PROSE _ Trans: F. Melian Stawell and Trans: Norbert Guterman 625 Nora Purtscher Wydenbruck Love 651 POEMS OF WISDOM Trans: James F. Clarke Zuleika 652 Holy Yearning 643 Trans: F. Melian Stawell Trans: F. Melian Stawell From HowMany Elements 652 One and All 644 Trans: Stephen Spender Trans: John S. Dwight Anacreon's Grave 653 Proem 644 Trans: W. E. Aytoun Trans: F. Melian Stawell Take MyLife 654 Wanderer's Consolation 645 Trans: Stephen Spender Trans: Calvin Thomas Stability in Change 646 InLiving as inWhat You Know Trans: N. L. Frothingham Trans: Stephen Spender 654 Talismans 647 From Father 654 Trans: J. S. Blackie Trans: Stephen Spender The Reunion 648 ToAmerica 655 Trans: E. A. Bowring Trans: Stephen Spender i ix j .
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