MacDonald gathers the poems he carried over from German and Italian, aiming first at their spirit and then at their meaning and music: the Hymns to the Night and Spiritual Songs of Novalis, lyrics by Schiller, Goethe and Uhland, and a legend in the manner of Hans Sachs among them, with a short preface on the art of translation.
A window on the German Romantic poets who shaped MacDonald’s own visionary fiction. Download the free EPUB.