Seventeenth Century German Prose: Grimmelshausen, Leibniz, Opitz, Weise, and others

Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, and Director of Comparative Literature, at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She is the author or editor of four books, including German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 (2017).

• Foreword: Gunter GrassTranslated by Ralph ManheimIntroduction: Lynne TatlockPHILIPP VON ZESENRosen-MandTranslated by Lynne TatlockGOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZExhortation to the Germans Better to Exercise Their Intellect and LanguageTranslated by Lynne TatlockADAM OLEARIUSHouseholds and Social LifeTranslated by Samuel H. BaronKASPAR STIELERNewspaper's Pleasure and ProfitTranslated by Lynne TatlockLISELOTTE VON DER PFALZLettersTranslated by Elborg ForsterABRAHAM A SANTA CLARAArise, Arise, You ChristiansTranslated by Lynne TatlockPHILIPP JACOB SPENERPia DesideriaTranslated by Theodore G. TappertCATHARINA REGINA VON GREIFFENBERGThe Most Holy and Most Healing Passion and Death of Jesus ChristTranslated by Lynne TatlockDANIEL CASPER VON LOHENSTEINPanegyric upon the Burial of Mr. Christian Hofmann von HofmannswaldauTranslated by Linda Feldman, with Lynne TatlockMARTIN ORTIZPastorale of the Nymph HercyniaTranslation and notes by Linda FeldmanJOHANN MICHAEL MOSCHEROSCHPhilander's German SupplementTranslated by Lynne TatlockCHRISTIAN WEISEThe Three Most Awful Arch-Fools in the Entire WorldTranslation and notes by Linda FeldmanJOHANN KUHNAUThe Musical QuackTranslated by Lynne TatlockJOHANN JACOB CHRISTOPH VON GRIMMELSHAUSENSimplicius SimplicissimusTranslated by George Schulz-BehrendRunagate CourageTranslated by Robert L. Hiller and John C. OsborneJOHANN BEERThe Summer TalesTranslated by James N. Hardin and Gerda JordanCHRISTIAN REUTERSchelmuffskyTranslated by Wayne Wonderly