Excerpt from German Influence in the English Romantic Period, 1788-1818: With Special Reference to Scott, Coleridge, Shelley and Byron It may be well to inquire at the outset of our investigation, what meaning we are to attach to the word influence, when applying it to the action of one literature upon another, or of a foreign literature or author on a given writer; and further, how far our concern here is with the question of German influence on English literature generally or on individual English writers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.