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Latest comment: 4 months ago by Yodin in topic Egmont

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--YodinT 23:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Egmont

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The title page of Poets and Poetry of Germany (1858) calls her the "Translator of “Egmont,” “The Niebelungen Treasure,” “Körner’s Life and Works.”

The Niebelungen Treasure (1847) and A Selection from the Poems and Dramatic Works of Theodor Körner (1850) are both published by Williams and Norgate, which could explain why the title page of the latter says: "By the translator of the “Nibelungen-Treasure.”" (i.e. perhaps the publisher either didn't know about Egmont (1848), which was published by Saunders and Otley, or didn't want to advertise the work of another publisher).

The translator's Preface to Egmont (1848) is dated "Frankfort-a-Main, June 1848": if any letters, journals, diaries, etc. could confirm Margaret (Phillips at that time) was there then, it would make it much more certain that this is the edition of Egmont that she translated. --YodinT 23:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)Reply