Synopses & Reviews
Foreword by Günter Grass
This anthology gives a sense of the broad range of prose writing, the many interests of the seventeenth century intellectual, a rich diversity of genres, fictions and non-fictions.
Synopsis
Foreword by Günter Grass
This anthology gives a sense of the broad range of prose writing, the many interests of the seventeenth century intellectual, a rich diversity of genres, fictions and non-fictions.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Gunter Grass
Translated by Ralph Manheim Introduction: Lynne Tatlock PHILIPP VON ZESENRosen-Mand
Translated by Lynne Tatlock GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZExhortation to the Germans Better to Exercise Their Intellect and Language
Translated by Lynne Tatlock ADAM OLEARIUSHouseholds and Social Life
Translated by Samuel H. Baron KASPAR STIELERNewspaper's Pleasure and Profit
Translated by Lynne Tatlock LISELOTTE VON DER PFALZLetters
Translated by Elborg Forster ABRAHAM A SANTA CLARAArise, Arise, You Christians
Translated by Lynne Tatlock PHILIPP JACOB SPENERPia Desideria
Translated by Theodore G. Tappert CATHARINA REGINA VON GREIFFENBERGThe Most Holy and Most Healing Passion and Death of Jesus Christ
Translated by Lynne Tatlock DANIEL CASPER VON LOHENSTEINPanegyric upon the Burial of Mr. Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau
Translated by Linda Feldman, with Lynne Tatlock MARTIN ORTIZPastorale of the Nymph Hercynia
Translation and notes by Linda Feldman JOHANN MICHAEL MOSCHEROSCHPhilander's German Supplement
Translated by Lynne Tatlock CHRISTIAN WEISEThe Three Most Awful Arch-Fools in the Entire World
Translation and notes by Linda Feldman JOHANN KUHNAUThe Musical Quack
Translated by Lynne Tatlock JOHANN JACOB CHRISTOPH VON GRIMMELSHAUSENSimplicius Simplicissimus
Translated by George Schulz-BehrendRunagate Courage
Translated by Robert L. Hiller and John C. Osborne JOHANN BEERThe Summer Tales
Translated by James N. Hardin and Gerda Jordan CHRISTIAN REUTERSchelmuffsky
Translated by Wayne Wonderly