Reviews

«...O'Neill's factual account of the German-Irish literary connection and its historical ramifications will remain to the student and scholar a convenient and ready source of information and orientation.» (Robert Weninger, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature)
«This is an exceptionally well-researched, well-organized, and well-written book.» (Heinz Kosok, Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie)
«It will be a real stimulus to further exploration of this important area of influence studies.» (Dennis Tate, Quinquereme)
«O'Neill has gathered a wealth of information into a very compact volume. ... Apart from its obvious utility as a work of reference and as a fund of suggestive materials for future scholarship, O'Neill's book may serve two other functions: It will - one hopes - once again remind those who study European literary relations that there exist important avenues of international literary and intellectual commerce outside the well-known trade routes, so to speak, of the major European cultural powers. And it will - one also hopes - remind us all of how much can be learned from looking at the self-reflecting dimension of one nation's literary fascination with another. ... O'Neill's book deserves a wide audience not only among comparatists, but also among scholars of the two literatures whose mutual attraction forms its subject, for they will arguably have the most to learn from it.» (John Boening, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature)