Translations into English of German poems and plays, ca. 1800.

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Translations into English of German poems and plays, ca. 1800.

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The holograph volume contains English prose translations of extracts from German playwrights and poets of the later eighteenth century, including Christian Furchtegott Gellert, Friedrich von Hagedorn, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Christian Felix Weisse, and Christoph Martin Wieland. The choice of texts was inspired by translator Michel Huber and contains critical footnotes by the anonymous translator. Includes one poem by Ewald Kleist transcribed in French from Jean Francois Marmontel's Poetique Francaise (Paris, 1763), and two unattributed plays, an eighty-page comedy (The Count of Olsbach) and a sixty-page untitled Gothic melodrama.

365 p. : vellum ; 18 cm.

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Hagedorn, Friedrich ˜vonœ 1708-1754

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Epithet: German poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000048 ...

Weisse, Christian Felix, 1726-1804.

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Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott, 1715-1769

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Date when copies made unknown. From the description of Zwey Briefe, der I. von C.F. Gellert, der II. von G.W. Rabener, Leipzig und Dresden, 1761. / Dritter und Vierter Brief, von G.W. Rabener und C.F. Gellert, Leipzig und Dresden, 1761. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644648 ...

Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x000162 ...

Marmontel, Jean-François, 1723-1799

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French author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Couvicourt, to M. Verdelet, 1793 Jan. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606127 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Voltaire, 1766 Oct. 27 or 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606925 ...

Kleist, Ewald Christian ˜vonœ 1715-1759

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Huber, M. (Michel), 1727-1804

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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000977.0x0002ac German man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Reichenau, to an unidentified aristocrat, 1762 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591169 ...