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BLVS. Bibliothek des Litterarischen
Vereins in
Stuttgart. Tübingen.

Böhtl. Otto Böhtlingk, Indische
Sprüche, St.
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H.E. Höfische Epik, ed. Piper in KDNL.
JAOS. Journal American Oriental Society.
KDNL. Deutsche National-Litteratur,
ed. Jos.
Kürschner. (Berlin) u.
Stuttgart.

K.S. Translations of the Gulistan and
Baharistan,
printed for the Kama Shastra
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Red. Geschichte der schönen
Redekünste Persiens.

Sh. N. Shah Namah.

ZDMG. Zeitschrift der Deutschen
Morgenländischen
Gesellschaft.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
INTRODUCTION.
Page 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'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.
RÜCKERT.
His Oriental Studies--Introduces the Ghasele--Östliche
Rosen;
Imitations of Hafid--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 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 of the Value
of the Oriental
Movement in German Literature. 79
TRANSCRIPTION.

For the transcription of Sanskrit words the system of the _Zeitschrift
der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft_ has been followed; for
that of Persian words the system of the Grundriss der iranischen
Philologie has been adopted, with some variations however, e.g.
[Arabic] is indicated by '. To be consistent, such familiar names as
Hafiz and Nizami appear as Hafid and Nidami; Omar Khayyam as
'Umar Xayyam; and the word ghazal, the German Ghasele_, is written
_gazal.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
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