See Ernst Robert Curtius , Furopaische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter (Bern, 1948), 147.
2.
On the theatrum mundi tradition see above all the following studies: Curtius, op. cit. (ref. 1); Peter Rusterholz , Theatrum vitae humanae (Philologische Studian und Quellen, li; Berlin, 1970); Peter Skrine, "All the word's a stage", in The Baroque: Literature and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Europe (New York, 1978), 1-24.
3.
See the author's Spanien und Deutschland: Geschichte und Dokumentation der Interarischen Bezirehungen ( Berlin, 1976), 106f.; Spanish translation (Madrid, 1980), 145f.; Ernst Beltler, "The Reception of Calderón among the German Romantics". Studies in Romanticism , xx (1981), 437-60; Werner Keller, "Faust: Der Tragodie zweiter Teil", in "Goethes literarisches Spatwerk", Europaische Romantik I, Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft, XIV, ed. by Karl Robert Mandelkow (Wiesbaden, 1982), 452-8.
4.
Stuart Atkins, "The Evaluation of Romanticism in Goethe's Faust", Journal of English and Germanic Philology, liv (1955), 9-38.
5.
For a study of Goethe and Byron see the author's Byron und der europaische Byronismus (Darmstadt, 1983).
6.
Recently Ulrich Wesche's Byron und Grabbe: Ein geistesgeschichtlilcher Versuch (Detmold, 1979) appeared.
7.
Quoted according to Forefathers, trans. by Count Potocki (London, 1968).
8.
On the motif of the tyrannical God, see the author's Deutschr und europaische Romantik (Stuttgart, 1978), 166f.
9.
Lermontov's poem is quoted according to Werke, ed. by Arthur Luther (Leipzig, 1922).
10.
The text used is in José de Espronceda, El Estudiante de Salamanca: El Diablo mundo, ed. by R. Marrast (Madrid, 1978). Recent scholarly opinions on Espronceda's epic poem and its influences are discussed in Juan Alborg, Historia de la literatura española, iv (Madrid, 1980), 332f.
11.
On the theme of Weltschmerz see Klaus Heitmann, "Der Weltschmerz in den europaischen Literaturen", in Europaiche Romantik II, Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft , xv, ed, by Klaus Heitmann (Wiesbaden, 1982), 57-82; also the author's forthcoming Goethe und die europaische Romantik, chapter on "Wertherismus als Tendenz des Jahrhunderts" (Munich, 1984).
