Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller. With Notes.

Dwight, John S. (Sullivan), translator.

Verlag: Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839

Beschreibung

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839. First edition. Original green cloth, printed paper label. Volume III of George Ripley's "Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature". A presentation copy: "G.W. Haven, Esq. with the respects of J.S. Dwight". George Wallis Haven contributed some of the translations. Also helping Dwight were George Bancroft, Sarah Margaret Fuller (BAL 6489, her first appearance in a book), James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, Frederic Henry Hedge, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, Charles Timothy Brooks, and Christopher Pearse Cranch. Dedicated to Thomas Carlyle, who told George Ellis in May of 1839 that Dwight, in this translation, ".seemed to understand the matter better than anyone else." Spine sunned. Label rubbed and chipped. Front hinge starting. Light foxing. A Very Good copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 222390702fb7862b987de151c117e580

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Titel: Select Minor Poems, Translated from the ...

Verlag: Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

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