ables.
Hans Sachs,--
1. Sacred Song.
2. Poem on the Death of Martin Luther.
3. Poem on the War.
Petermann Etterlin's Chronicle,--William Tell and Rudolf von Hapsburg.
AEgidius Tschudi's Chronicle,--William Tell.
Paulus Melissus Schede.
Johann Fischart,--
1. Exhortation addressed to the German people.
2. Das glueckhafte Schiff.
Georg Rollenhagen,--fable.
Popular Books,--
1. Tyll Eulenspiegel.
2. Dr. Faust.
Popular Songs.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

_Modern High-German:_--

Martin Opitz, and the First Silesian School.
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin.
Anonymous Poem,--"O Ewigkeit."
Michael Altenburg's Camp-song (Gustavus Adolphus).
Johannes Heermann,--sacred song.
Popular Songs.
Johann Arndt,--
1. Sacred Song.
2. On the Power and Necessity of Prayer.
Jacob Boehme, Mysterium Magnum.
Johann Valentin Andreae.
Friedrich Spee.
Julius Wilhelm Zinegreff.
Friedrich von Logau.
Simon Dach and the Koenigsberg School.
Paul Flemming.
Paul Gerhard.
Georg Philipp Harsdoerffer and the Nuernberg School.
Johannes Rist.
Andreas Gryphius,--
1. Sonnets.
2. From the Tragedy "Cardenio and Celinde."
Joachim Rachel,--satire.
Johann Michael Moscherosch,--satires.
Christoph von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus,--novel.
Johann Balthasar Schupp,--on the German Language.
Angelus Silesius.
Hoffmannswaldau and Lohenstein,--Second Silesian School.
Abraham a Santa Clara,--sermon.
Philipp Jacob Spener,--on Luther.
Gottfried Arnold,--sacred poem.
Christian Weise.
Hans Assmann von Abschatz.
Friedrich R. L. von Canitz.
Christian Wernicke.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz,--on the German Language.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

_Modern High-German:_--

Johann Christoph Gottsched,--Cato.
Johann Jacob Bodmer,--Character of German Poetry.
Barthold Heinrich Brockes.
Johann Christian Guenther.
Nicolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf.
Christian Ludwig Liscow.
Friedrich von Hagedorn.
Albrecht von Haller.
Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener.
Ewald Christian von Kleist.
Christian Fuerchtegott Gellert.
Johann Ludwig Gleim.
Johann Peter Uz.
Justus Moeser.
Klopstock. See below.
Salomon Gessner.
Johann Winckelmann.
Lessing. See below.
Johann Georg Hamann.
Immanuel Kant.
Johann August Musaeus.
Wieland. See below.
Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel.
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart.
Matthias Claudius.
Johann Caspar Lavater.
Herder. See below.
Heinrich Jung, Stilling.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
Gottfried August Buerg