Dryden's Relation to Germany 21 



duced Wernicke's satire as a " Streitschrift " against his oppo- 

 nents. Although primarily interested in the religious epic, like 

 Dryden, the satire always fascinated Bodmer. As early as 1720, 

 he was planning to write satires.*^ In 1737 he translated two 

 books of Butler's Hudibras,^^ and ten years later Pope's Dun- 

 ciad,^^ an imitation of Mac Flecknoe, which he had originally in- 

 tended to adapt to German conditions** as Wernicke had Mac 

 Flecknoe. He was also familiar with Swift's The Battle of 

 Books, as in his Charakter der Deutschen Gedichte (1734) he 

 adapts Swift's characterization of Dryden to Amthor, a contem- 

 porary poet.*^ Together with Wieland, Bodmer wrote Edzvard 

 Grandison's Geschichte in Gorlits,*^ as a reply to Schonaich's Die 

 ganze Asthetik in einer Nuss,'^' and he also encouraged Wieland 

 in writing the Ankiindignng einer Dunciade fiir die Deutschen.*^ 

 Bodmer was first introduced to Hans Sachs through a letter 

 from J. U. Konig, dated March 28, 1724,*^ in which Wernicke's 

 works and the Postel-Hunold-Wernicke feuds were briefly 



*i Leonhard Meister, Ueber Bodmer, offentlicher Lehrer der Sittenlehrc 

 und der Geschichte an der Kunstschule zu Zurich. Nebst Fragmente aus 

 seinen Brief en. Zurich, 1783. See Bodmer's letter to Meister dated May 

 5, 1720, p. 76. 



42 Versuch einer Deutschen Uebersetzung von Samuel Butlers Hudibras, 

 einem Satyrischen Gedichte midcr die Schwermer und Independenten, sur 

 Zeit Carls des Ersten, Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1737. 



^^ Alexander Popens Duncias mit Historischen Noten und einem 

 Schreiben des Uebersetzers an die Obotriten, Zurich, 1747. 



** See Introduction to the Dunciade " An meine Freunde die Obertriten " 

 and his letter to Sulzer, September 12, 1747, in Briefen der Schweizer 

 Bodmer, Sulzer, Gessner. Aus Gleims lit. Nachlasse, by W. Korte, p. 69, 

 Zurich, 1804. 



*s See Bodmer Denkschrift, pp. 224-225. 



4^ See Euphorion, Vol. 18, pp. 68-89, and Vol. 19, pp. 66-91. 



^'^ Die ganze Asthetik in einer Nuss, oder neologisches Worterbuch, 

 Leipzig, 1754. See Lessing's Review in the Berlinischen privil. Zeitung, 

 98. Stlick, vom 15. August, 1754- 



*8 AnkUndigung einer Dunciade fiir die Deutschen. Nebst dem verbes- 

 serten Hermann, Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1755. Gessner, Gleim, Sulzer 

 and Ramler took an active interest in this work. See Korte, Loco citato, 

 p. 228 ff., p. 234 ff., p. 245 fiF. 



*9 Literarische Pamphlete aus der Schweiz, p. 32 ff., Ziirich, 1781. 



