The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany

CONTENTS.

Chapter I.
INTRODUCTION.
Information of MediÆval Europe concerning India and Persia—Travellers—India and Persia in MediÆval German Poetry,	1
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 BlÄtter—His Didactic Tendency and Predilection for Sa-+d-,	16
Chapter IV.
GOETHE.
Enthusiasm for +akuntal-—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 +akuntal-—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.
RÜCKERT.
His Oriental Studies—Introduces the Ghasele—Östliche Rosen; Imitations of H-fi+—Erbauliches und Beschauliches—MorgenlÄndische Sagen und Geschichten—Brahmanische ErzÄhlungen—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 Firdaus-—Stimmen vom Ganges—Sakuntala, compared with the Original in the Mah-bh-rata—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 of the Value of the Oriental Movement in German Literature.	79

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