GERMAN EPIC POETRY This is volume 1 in The German Library in 100 Volumes. It includes a comprehensive foreword to the entire series by the general editor Volkmar Sander. It also features the following works: The Older Lay of Hildebrand, The Nibelungenlied, The Younger Lay of Hildebrand, The Battle of Ravenna, Bitterolf and Dietleib, and The Rose Garden (Version A). In many ways, German, as well as all modern Western literature, is grounded in the epic (or heroic) poetry of this seminal volume. THE GERMAN LIBRARY in 100 Volumes The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking reader can find the broadest possible collection of poetic and intellectual achievements in new as well as great classic translations Convenient and accessible in format, the volumes of The German Library will form the core of any growing library of European literature for years to come. Select list of volumes now published: German Medieval Tales German Humanism and Reformation . Immanuel Kant: Philosophical Writings • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sufferings of Young Werther and Elective Affinities . Friedrich Schiller: Plays-"Intrigue and Love" and "Don Carlos" . Friedrich Schiller: " Wallenstein" and " Mary Stuart" German Fairy Tales . German Literary Fairy Tales . German Romantic Novellas s German Romantic Stories • German Novellas of Realism . German Poetry from 1750 to 1900. Georg Büicbner: Complete Works and Letters Rainer Maria Rilke: Prose and Poetry • Gottfried Benn: Prose, Essays, Poems German Essays on Art History • Essays on German Theater . Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Critical Essays ISBN 0-8264-0743-9

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