Yet, there is more to it than just this. As the volume's cover summary suggests, these poetic
texts are thoroughly canonical, and I am of two minds regarding Gaier's selection. On the …

By EDWIN H. ZEYDEL, University of Cincinnati No second-year German reading course
should fail to place some emphasis upon poetry. To students who are not utterly impervious …

Few teachers of German will claim that they have solved the problem of how to introduce
their students to the grandeur and beauty of German poetry. Translation gets us nowhere …

COMPARATIVE Philology has shown that the languages spoken in Germany, the German
part of Austria (chiefly the western provinces), Holland, part of Belgium, England, Denmark …

To this question we teachers ought to devote our whole attention, and turn away from the
productions in the methodology of language teaching, although they may be very valuable …

In analyzing carefully and honestly what we do with our text in the teaching of foreign
languages, we must admit that in mo instances we are satisfied with comprehension or with …

Those of us who still like to think of teaching as a craft or even an art are apt to view with
diffidence, not to say suspicion, any attempt to formalize our individual experiences into a …

II, which now follows, first defines the work of the course, a brief bibliography by way of
introduction, and then enume in several lists, selected representative dramas, novels, short s …

The text is adorned with reproductions of twelve etchings by Daniel Chodowiecki, Lessing's
contemporary. They represent the most prominent scenes of the play and are interest-ing as …

The course described here treats the traditional German syllabus with a twist to make
students appreciate the meaning of" literary critic" and to get them involved in traditional …