Creative Encounter

A collection of thirteen essays by comparatists and Germanists published in celebration of the scholar and poet Herman Salinger. The essays range from Greek antiquity to the twentieth century — from the Sophoclean Electra to Rilke. Two poems by Rudolf Hagelstange and Karl Krolow, Tabula Gratulatoria, and a bibliography of Herman Salinger’s publications are also included in the volume.

The contributors include: John Kunstmann, Helmut Rehder, Leland Phelps, Frank Borchardt, Eugene Falk. Haskell Block, Beda Allemann, James O'Flaherty, Tilo Alt, William Rey, George Schoolfield, and Hermann Weigand.