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OSSIAN
IN
GERMANY

Bibliography, General Survey, Ossian’s Influence uponKlopstock and the Bards

BY
RUDOLF TOMBO, Jr., A.M., Ph.D.
SOMETIME FELLOW IN GERMAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

AMS PRESS, INC.
NEW YORK
1966[ii]

Copyright 1901, Columbia University Press,
New York

Reprinted with the permission of theOriginal Publisher, 1966

AMS PRESS, INC.
New York, N.Y. 10003
1966

Manufactured in the United States of America

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PREFACE.

When the subject of Ossian’s influence in Germany first occurredto me, it seemed a simple matter to exhaust the topic in the limitsset by a work of this character. A little search, however, revealedthat if the entire field were to be covered, the different authorscould not be discussed with any degree of completeness. Anotherobstacle stood in the way of the fulfilment of the original scheme.The amount of material discovered at the outset in the British Museumled to the preparation of a card index of German Ossianiana;in Germany each library furnished additions at such a rapid rate,that the idea of a chronological bibliography soon suggested itself.The latter developed into such proportions, that it seemed advisableto publish it as an introduction to the literary material to follow.Nothing remained, therefore, but to confine the literary discussionto a certain period, and in order to retain the chronologicalsequence, as well as in consideration of the difficulty of obtainingmaterial on the bardic poets in this country, the beginningwas made with Klopstock and the “bards.” It is the intention ofthe writer to discuss in later publications Ossian’s influence uponHerder, Goethe, and Schiller, as also upon the poets of the Stormand Stress, of the Göttinger Hain, and of the Romantic School,some of the material for which has been collected. A short bibliographyof Ossianic material in other languages has also been prepared,which will gladly be placed at the disposal of any onedesirous of working up the subject. The author will be pleased toreceive any corrections or additions to the bibliography that maysuggest themselves to the reader.

It is fitting that I should here acknowledge my indebtedness tothe men who made this thesis possible. Prof. Wm. H. Carpenter,Prof. Calvin Thomas, and Prof. A. V. W. Jackson have beentrue and untiring guides and a never–failing source of inspiration,and I shall ever consider it a most rare privilege to have beenenabled to carry on the major part of my advanced studies undertheir direction. My gratitude is due also to the men who contributedto make my stay abroad such a pleasant and profitable one,to the professors under whom I studied at the University of Leipzig,as well as to the several librarians who were of service to me, andwhom I always found most courteous and accommodating.

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