It remains only to thank the editors of the Princeton UniВ versity Press, and especially its associate director, Miss R. I have profited from these transВ lations and wish to record my indebtedness here. Trask (PartiВ san Review, 1950) and the essay on Balzac by Harry Zohn ОЅ I have also consulted the earlier English versions of two essays, the second part of the essay on Ortega y Gasset by Willard R. The entire translation has been checked against previous translations into French and Italian. I should also like to thank my father for help in reВ solving difficulties of language and style. For comments and advice I am indebted to Professor Ernst Fedor Hoffmann of Hunter College and to Professor Ursula Hoffmann of Lehman ColВ lege. I owe thanks to my colleague Professor Martin Nozick of Queens College for reading the essays on Spanish literature and providing valuable criticism. 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. 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. Evans, Jr., 'Ernst Robert Curtius,' On Four ModВ ern Humanists, Princeton, 1970, pp.

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. 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 FriedrichWilhelms-Universitat zu Bonn (1818-1968), Bonn, 1970, pp. Some of this material has been incorporated in the introduction. Princeton University Press Princeton, New JerseyД¬opyright В© 1973 by Princeton University Press LC Card: 72-9943 ISBN: 0-1 This book is composed in Linotype Times Roman Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New JerseyДЄcknowledgments 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. Оњ Kritische Essays zur europdischen LiteraturД«y E.George, Hofmannsthal, and CalderГіn 142Д®ssays on European Literature Fundamental Features of Goethe's World 73Д«.

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