This is meticulous and laborious work that was always likely to be done only once, and so I, at least, am pleased that it was completed here with such unflagging attention."—Albert Pionke, William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of ...
Carlyle has long been credited with establishing the importance of new German writing in Britain at the time, and Essays on German Literature brings together his complete writings on the topic. This volume will be published in two parts.
These volumes are reproduced from the 1896 Centenary Edition of his collected works. Volume 27 contains the second volume of a collection of critical essays."-- from the back cover.