[Signed] Life's Golden Tree: Essays in German Literature from the Renaissance to Rilke Kerth, Thomas (edit.) ; Schoolfield, George C. (edit.) [Fine]

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Hard cover, 8vo, in navy blue cloth with titles to front and spine in gold, First Edition, (xii), 282pp. English text. Condition: Fine, (like new). ** This is part of a series by Camden House of ""Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture."" A volume celebrating the career of the scholar Professor Robert Browning, (1911- 2000) who taught for many years at Hamilton College, and was a widely respected author on German poetry. This anthology, in English, contains articles from various scholars, including: Paul F. Casey, ""Children and Images of Childhood in German Biblical Drama of the Sixteenth Century""; Thomas Kerth, Sibylle Schwartz and die Art der Bilder""; Gerald Gillespie, ""Baroque High: Above it All with Balde""; George C. Schoolfield, ""Memory's Lane: Simon Dach's Memel Epithalamium of January 18, 1655""; Anthony J. Harper, ""Urbs Litteraria: On Researching the Literary Life of the Town in Seventeenth-Century Germany""; John Roger Paas, ""The Production of Emblems in Nurenberg, c. 1650-1680""; Christoph E. Schweitzer, ""Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris: Gleich Opfergerüchen (""Parzenlied""); Jeffrey L. Sammons, observations on Aging, Death and Poesy in Heinrich Heine's Late Poem ""Bimini,"" partly Philological""; Clifford Albrecht Bernd, ""The German Lyric in the Age of Poetic Realism""; H. Jurgen Meyer-Wendt, ""On the Authenticity of Modern Art: Emerson and Nietzsche""; Russell E. Brown, ""Trakl's Landscapes: Is That Man a Hunter or a Shepherd?""; Ulrich K. Goldsmith, ""Janus on the Threshold: ""Time"" in Margot Scharpenberg's poetry"" and, finally, James Hardin, ""Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate."" Translations of Rilke's Tenth Duino Elegy 1939-1993.""