A Book of German Dactylic Poetry (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Book of German Dactylic Poetry Is intended to introduce into English schools a number of the more difficult, and, for this reason, hitherto less studied compositions of German poetical litera ture, beginning with voss and coming down to the most eminent of our living poets, E. Geibel. It is hoped that this collection - small as it is, but con taining nothing but gems - will be appreciated by those whose aims are not confined to merely impart ing a certain knowledge of the German language, but who endeavour to instil mental culture of the highest order through the medium of German litera ture - which may in this respect well measure itself with the intellectual and poetical wealth of ancient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.