INTRODUCTION TO A COURSE OF GERMAN LITERATURE; IN LECTURES TO THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, BY LUDWIG VON MÜHLENFELS, LL.D. B PROFESSOR OF THE GERMAN AND NORTHERN OTHER LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN TAYLOR, 1830 654. PREFACE. THE following Introductory Lectures are submitted to the test of public judgment in that unaltered form in which they were delivered last session at the University of London, in order to enable the public to appreciate the spirit in which the lecturer, when opening his Course of Lectures on German Literature for the present session, is likely to treat his subject, and the views from which he proceeds in contemplating an important branch of the literary history of Germany. Although this Introduction does not claim the merit of exclusive novelty in historical views, and in those notions on matters of taste, which sometimes are termed " aesthetical," nor that of a perfect and adequate develop |