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Title: The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany

Author: Arthur F. J. Remy

Release Date: March 5, 2006 [EBook #17928]

Language: English

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THE INFLUENCE
OF
INDIA AND PERSIA
ON THE
POETRY OF GERMANY

BY

ARTHUR F.J. REMY, A.M., Ph.D.

SOMETIME FELLOW IN COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Copyright 1901, Columbia University Press,
New York

Manufactured in the United States of America

TO
Prof. William H. Carpenter, Ph.D.
Prof. Calvin Thomas, A.M.
Prof. A.V. Williams Jackson, L.H.D., Ph.D.
OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
IN GRATITUDE

PREFACE.

The Oriental movement which manifested itself so strikingly in German
literature during the nineteenth century is familiar to every student of
that literature. Although the general nature of this movement is pretty
clearly understood, no systematic investigation of it, so far as I know,
has ever been undertaken. In the following pages an attempt is made to
trace the influence which the Indo-Iranian East--the Semitic part is not
considered--exerted on German poetry. The work does not claim to be
exhaustive in the sense that