Download or read book The Spirit of German Poetry written by Joseph Gostick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Spirit of German Poetry: A Series of Translations From the German Poets; With Critical and Biographical Notices Not many years ago, Germany was chiefly known among us as the land of a Goblin litera ture, and still ghosts are plentiful enough in its imaginative productions, as if they sought a hiding place from the weapons of the rationalists in the arms of the poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.