Similarly, the first
American imprint of M. G. Lewis' _Tales of Wonder_ was issued in New
York in 1801, while five selections in it had already appeared in the
_Weekly Mag._, 1798-9, Phila.[9] In addition to these there were found
in the American magazines before 1811, ten translations from Buerger,
eight from Gellert, five from Lessing, four from Haller, three from
Goethe, two each from Jacobi, Klopstock, Matthisson and Schickaneder,
and one each from "Adelio," Buerde, Kotzebue, Patzke, "Sheller," and
"Van Vander Horderclogeth," together with several translations, for
which the name of the original author was not given. None of these
were printed in book form before 1826.[10]

[Footnote 8: _New Idyls_, by S. Gessner. Philadelphia, 1802.]

[Footnote 9:

Buerger, _Leonora_ [Wm. Taylor--some variants], Vol. I-221.
Buerger, _The Chase_ [Sir Walter Scott], Vol. II-413.
----, _The Water King_ [M. G. Lewis], Vol. III-92.
Goethe, _The Erl-King_ [M. G. Lewis], Vol. III-93.
----, _The Erl-King's Daughter_ [M. G. Lewis], Vol. III-94.

The last three, however, were also in Lewis' _Ambrosio or the
Monk_, Philadelphia, 1798.]

[Footnote 10: Wilkens' _List_. Two selections from Buerger and
two from Goethe appeared in Lewis' collections, but no
editions of their poems exclusively were issued. Klopstock's
_Messiah_ was published three times before 1811, but not his
shorter poems.]

The first translations of German poetry printed in America are to be
sought, therefore, in the magazines and it was here also that the
public received its first information about the lives of the German
literati. It is the object of the present study to consider the German
influence in the early American periodicals, treating especially the
translations of German poetry published in them.[11] Together with
these are to be found in Part III translations from the other Teutonic
literatures more or less closely connected with the German, namely,
translations of Dutch, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic poetry, and
also original poems on German literature, history, biography,
etc.,--for example, _Ode on the late Victory obtained by the King of
Prussia_, _Charlotte's Soliloquy--to the Manes of Werter_, and
_Burlesque on the Style, in which most of the German romantic Ballads
are written_. To this has been added a list of translations of German
prose, and a list of original articles on Germany, etc., so