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TO
Prof. William H. Carpenter, Ph.D.
Prof. Calvin Thomas, A.M.
Prof. A.V. Williams Jackson, L.H.D., Ph.D.
OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
IN GRATITUDE




PREFACE.


The Oriental movement which manifested itself so strikingly in German
literature during the nineteenth century is familiar to every student of
that literature. Although the general nature of this movement is pretty
clearly understood, no systematic investigation of it, so far as I know,
has ever been undertaken. In the following pages an attempt is made to
trace the influence which the Indo-Iranian East--the Semitic part is not
considered--exerted on German poetry. The work does not claim to be
exhaustive in the sense that it gives a list of all the poets that ever
came under that influence. Nor does it pretend to be anything like a
complete catalogue of the sources whence the poets derived their