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Edward Ziegler Davis
1878–1924
A literary scholar of early American print culture, this writer traced how German poetry reached English-language readers in the United States. His best-known work explores the magazines, translations, and cultural exchanges that helped shape American literary taste in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810
by Edward Ziegler Davis
About the author
Working in the early 1900s, Edward Ziegler Davis was an American scholar of German literature and translation history. His best-known book, Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines, 1741-1810, grew out of doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania and was published in Philadelphia in 1905.
In that study, he looked closely at how German poetry appeared in early American magazines, tracing the ways literary ideas moved across languages and borders. The book is still of interest because it gathers translated poems, related commentary, and a record of how American readers first encountered German writers in print.
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