heath's Modern Language Series GOETHE'S POEMS SELECTED AND EDITED BY CHARLES HARRIS PROFESSOR OF GERMAN IN ADELBERT COLLEGE of BOSTON, U. S. A. D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS 1911 MAY 1 5 1912 XATY IN the preparation of this selection of the poems of Goethe, arranged in chronological order, my desire has been to furnish a commentary which should give the necessary explanations of words and phrases and also the history of the origin of each poem, so far as this is known. Nothing more has been attempted. No excursion has been made into the fields of æsthetics, and there is no discussion of any of the fascinating problems which arise in the study of the great master; but even within its narrow limits the book must assuredly be very imperfect. The text is that of the Weimar edition. There are no intentional changes in the wording. In the matter of spelling and of the use of capital letters the Prussian rules have however been followed, and the punctuation has here and there been altered slightly, commonly by the more frequent employment of the comma. CLEVELAND, September, 1899. CHARLES HARRIS. |