... Sind wir doch selbst herausgegangen, in unserm Übermut befangen, PREFACE THIS book is designed to accompany an introductory study of the history of German literature. It is assumed that ... short history of German literature for the series published under the general editorship of Mr. Edmund Gosse and known as “Literatures of the World,” it was natural that the Anthology should ... read the language of Goethe and Schiller with some facility, and would like to know something of the earlier periods, but has not studied, and may not care to study, Old and Middle German. On...