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ESSAYS ON EUROPEAN LITERATURE Essays on European Literature ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Μ Kritische Essays zur europdischen Literatur By E. R. Curtius Translated by Michael Kowal Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey Copyright © 1973 by Princeton University Press LC Card: 72-9943 ISBN: 0-691-10010-1 This book is composed in Linotype Times Roman Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey Acknowledgments I SHOULD like to express my gratitude to Frau Ilse Curtius of Bonn, whose kind hospitality enabled me to pursue research in the library of her late husband. Some of this material has been incorporated in the introduction. Professor Heinrich Lausberg of the University of Miinster kindly furnished me with an advance proof of his biography of Curtius, which has since been published in 150 Jahre Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universitat zu Bonn (1818-1968), Bonn, 1970, pp. 214-235. For the introduction I have further drawn upon two essays by American scholars, Alexander Gelley, "Ernst Robert Curtius: Topology and Critical Method," Modern Language Notes, LXXXI (1966), 579-594; and Arthur R. Evans, Jr., "Ernst Robert Curtius," On Four Mod ern Humanists, Princeton, 1970, pp. 85-145. The essays "Friedrich Schlegel and France," "The Young Cocteau," and "George, Hofmannsthal and Calderon" were translated by Eva Schweizer Vogel, although the latter has been somewhat revised. I am also grateful to Professor Vogel for a partial draft of "Remarks on the French Novel" and for many helpful suggestions on the manuscript. I owe thanks to my colleague Professor Martin Nozick of Queens College for reading the essays on Spanish literature and providing valuable criticism. For comments and advice I am indebted to Professor Ernst Fedor Hoffmann of Hunter College and to Professor Ursula Hoffmann of Lehman Col lege. I should also like to thank my father for help in re solving difficulties of language and style. The entire translation has been checked against previous translations into French and Italian. I have also consulted the earlier English versions of two essays, the second part of the essay on Ortega y Gasset by Willard R. Trask (Parti san Review, 1950) and the essay on Balzac by Harry Zohn ν ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (Modern Occasions, 1971). I have profited from these trans lations and wish to record my indebtedness here. It remains only to thank the editors of the Princeton Uni versity Press, and especially its associate director, Miss R. Miriam Brokaw, for their assistance throughout the prepa ration of this book. Μ. K. New York, July, 1973 Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS V INTRODUCTION ix PREFACE TO THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS XXV I. VirgU 3 II. Rudolf Borchardt on Virgil 18 III. Goethe as Critic 27 IV. Goethe as Administrator 58 V. Fundamental Features of Goethe's World 73 VI. Friedrich Schlegel and France 92 VII. Stefan George in Conversation 107 VIII. To the Memory of Hofmannsthal 129 A. HofmannsthaVs German Mission 129 B. Hofmannsthal and the Romance World 135 IX. George, Hofmannsthal, and Calderdn 142 X. Hermann Hesse 169 XI. New Encounter with Balzac 189 XII. Emerson 211 XIII. Unamuno 228 XIV. Charles Du Bos 248 XV. Ortega y Gasset 282 I. 1924 282 II. 1949 300 CONTENTS XVI. Ramon Perez de Ayala 318 XVII. James Joyce and His Ulysses 327 XVIII. T. S. Eliot 355 I. 1927 355 II. 1949 371 XIX. Toynbee's Theory of History 400 XX. Jorge Guillen 429 XXI. Remarks on the French Novel 437 XXII. The Young Cocteau 446 XXHI. William Goyen 456 XXIV. The Ship of the Argonauts 465 APPENDIX 497 INDEX 503
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