Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sever 30 was so dark yesterday that Professor Bartlett was obliged to dismiss the class in German...
...German Literature. Goethe and Schiller. Assist. Professor Bartlett. Sever...
Hosmer's Short History of German Literature is now ready, price...
LECTURES ON GERMAN LITERATURE.During this month two more introductory lectures will be delivered to freshmen by instructors in the German department. They will be given on Thursdays at 2 p. m, in Sever 11. The subjects are as follows...
Lessing was perhaps the greatest critic that ever lived. His superiority was demonstrated in his judgment of Shakespeare, whom he understood far better than his English contemporary, Johnson. His literary reviews were fearless, and even his personal friends were not spared. He freed the German drama from its slavery to the French school, and showed how the French drama failed to conform not only to the German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion...