Chapter II.

FROM THE PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES TO THE TIME OF
SIR WILLIAM JONES.

Travels to India and Persia--Olearius and his Work--Progress
of Persian Studies--Roger--India's Language
and Literature remain unknown--Oriental
Influence in German Literature, 9

Chapter III.

HERDER.

Herder's Interest in the Orient--Fourth Collection of his
Zerstreute Blaetter--His Didactic Tendency and
Predilection for Sa'di, 16

Chapter IV.

GOETHE.

Enthusiasm for Sakuntala--Der Gott und die Bajadere;
der Paria--Goethe's Aversion for Hindu Mythology--Origin
of the Divan--Oriental Character of the
Work--Inaugurates the Oriental Movement, 20

Chapter V.

SCHILLER.

Schiller's Interest in Sakuntala--Turandot, 28

Chapter VI.

THE SCHLEGELS.

Friedrich Schlegel's Weisheit der Indier--Foundation of
Sanskrit Study in Germany, 30

Chapter VII.

PLATEN.

His Oriental Studies--Ghaselen--Their Persian
Character--Imitation of Persian Form--Translations, 32

Chapter VIII.

RUeCKERT.

His Oriental Studies--Introduces the Ghasele--Oestliche
Rosen; Imitations of Hafid--Erbauliches und
Beschauliches--Morgenlaendische Sagen und
Geschichten--Brahmanische Erzaehlungen--Die Weisheit des
Brahmanen--Other Oriental Poems, 38

Chapter IX.

HEINE.

Becomes Interested in India through Schlegel--Influence
of India's Literature on his Poetry--Interest in the
Persian Poets--Persian Influence on Heine--His
Attitude toward the Oriental Movement, 57

Chapter X.

BODENSTEDT.

Lieder des Mirza Schaffy--Are Original Poems--Nachlass--Aus
Morgenland und Abendland--Sakuntala,
a Narrative Poem, 64

Chapter XI.

THE MINOR ORIENTALIZING POETS.

Some less known Poets who attempted the Oriental
Manner, 72

Chapter XII.

VON SCHACK.

His Fame as Translator of Firdausi--Stimmen vom
Ganges--Sakuntala, compared with the Original in
the Mahabharata--His Oriental Scholarship in his
Original Poems--Attitude towards Hafizian Singers, 74

Chapter XIII.

CONCLUSION.

Summary of Results Attained--Persian Tendency predominates
over Indic--Reason for this--Estimate