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Comparison of Bodmer's Translation
Excerpt from Comparison of Bodmer's Translation: Of Milton's Paradise Lost With the Original I have endeavored to bring together in an introduction all the facts bearing upon Bodmer's first acquaintance with the English language and English literature and to arrange them in a logical order so as to form a consecutive and com plete narrative of this event, so important for German liter ature. Certain phases of the subject have been worked up by Gustav Jenny in a thesis on Milton's poem in the German literature of the eighteenth century, and by Hans Bodmer in an essay on the beginnings of the Ziirich Milton, to both of whom I am indebted for most of my maten'al especially certain important, un...
Hermann Hesse
"A critical biography far surpassing the previous ones."--Times Higher Education Supplement "There are to be sure many writers whose biographies are more interesting than their fiction but Hesse is not one of these. He led a long and sometimes eventful life with marital tensions, traveL controversy, crises, even some thoughts of suicide and a period of time as a student in a home for retarded and unmanageable. In addition, there was his search which led him through the culture and arts of West and East, his views of politics and society, of psychology and philosophy. The difference between Hesse and other writers is that virtually every shred and patch of his life was brought into his writin...
