The Gothic School: Geijer, Tegner, Stagnelius, Almquist, Vitalis,
Runeberg, and others. The Romance Writers: Cederborg, Bremer, Carlen,
Knorring. Science: Swedenborg, Linnaeus, and others.

GERMAN LITERATURE.

INTRODUCTION.--1. German Literature and its Divisions.--2. The Mythology.
--3. The Language.

PERIOD FIRST--1. Early Literature; Translation of the Bible by Ulphilas;
the Hildebrand Lied.--2. The Age of Charlemagne; his Successors; the
Ludwig's Lied; Roswitha; the Lombard Cycle.--3. The Suabian Age; the
Crusades; the Minnesingers; the Romances of Chivalry; the Heldenbuch; the
Nibelungen Lied.--4. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; the
Mastersingers; Satires and Fables; Mysteries and Dramatic Representations;
the Mystics; the Universities; the Invention of Printing.

PERIOD SECOND.--From 1517 to 1700.--1. The Lutheran Period: Luther,
Melanchthon.--2. Manuel, Zwingle, Fischart, Franck, Arnd, Boehm.--3.
Poetry, Satire, and Demonology; Paracelsus and Agrippa; the Thirty Years'
War.--4. The Seventeenth Century: Opitz, Leibnitz, Puffendorf, Kepler,
Wolf, Thomasius, Gerhard; Silesian Schools; Hoffmannswaldau, Lohenstein.

PERIOD THIRD.--1. The Swiss and Saxon Schools; Gottsched, Bodmer, Rabener,
Gellert, Kaestner, and others.--2. Klopstock, Lessing, Wieland, and Herder.
--3. Goethe and Schiller.--4. The Goettingen School: Voss, Stolberg,
Claudius, Buerger, and others.--5. The Romantic School: the Schlegels,
Novalis; Tieck, Koerner, Arndt, Uhland, Heine, and others.--6. The Drama:
Goethe and Schiller; the _Power Men_; Muellner, Werner, Howald, and
Grillparzer.--7. Philosophy: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer,