2 Milton D. Baumgartner 



B. Reasons for the Favorable Reception of Alexander's 



Feast. 



C. Translations of Alexander's Feast. 



D. German Criticism of the Original and the Transla- 



tions. 

 2. The Relation of Dryden's Other Lyrics to Germany. 

 Conclusion 86-87 



INTRODUCTION 



While the literary relation of Dryden to Germany in the eigh- 

 teenth century is not so significant as that of Shakspere and of 

 Pope, it is nevertheless of sufficient importance to warrant in- 

 vestigation. No connected study of his relation to Germany has 

 been made, and the discussions of the influence of his individual 

 works are either incidental, or do not recognize the extent of 

 such influence. Koch^ scarcely mentions him in his treatise on 

 the English and German literary relations in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury; Vetter^ and Eichler^ do not show the indirect influence of 

 Mac Flecknoe upon Bodmer ; Fulda* and PecheP see no con- 



1 Ueber die Bedehungen der Englischen Litieratur siir Deutschcn ini 18. 

 Jahrhundert. (Leipzig, 1883.) Neither Flindt, Ueber den Einftxiss der 

 englischen Littcratur auf die deutsche des 18. Jahrhunderts (Charlotten- 

 burg, 1897), nor Seidensticher, English and German Literature in the 18. 

 Century Poet-Lore H, p. 169 flf. (1890) mentions Dryden at all in con- 

 nection with Germany. 



2 Bodmer und die englische Litteratur, Johann Jakob Bodmer Denk- 

 schrift sum CC. Geburtstag, p. 313 ff., Zurich, 1900. 



3 Christian Wernickes Hans Sachs und sein Dryden'sches Vorbild Mac 

 Flecknoe, Zeitschrift f. v. Litteraturgeschichfe. (Neue Folge) XVII, p. 

 208 ff. (1908). Eichler's admirable article exhaustively treats the relations 

 of the two satires, and connects the influence of Mac Flecknoe in a 

 general way upon German criticism. I have freely incorporated his 

 results. 



* See introduction to Chri.stian Wernicke, in D. N. L., XXXIX, p. 515 fT. 



5 Christian Wernickes Epigramme, Palaestra, LXXI, Berlin, 1909. All 

 of Wernicke's works are included in this volume, which contains an ex- 

 haustive introduction also dealing with Mac Flecknoe and Hans Sachs. 

 Ferdinand Eichler, Das Nachleben des Hans Sachs vom 16. bis ins 19. 

 Jahrhundert (1904), with Fulda and Pechel sees no connection between 

 Dryden's Satire and German criticism. 



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