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• Friends and associates
• Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Contemporaries
• Arndt, Ernst Moritz, 1769-1860 -- Contemporaries
• Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 -- Contemporaries
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Contemporaries
• Chapelain, Jean, 1595-1674 -- Contemporaries
• Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Contemporaries
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Contemporaries
• Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Contemporaries
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Contemporaries
• Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898 -- Contemporaries
• Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, 1584-1647 -- Contemporaries
• Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 -- Contemporaries
• Godwin, William, 1756-1836 -- Contemporaries
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Contemporaries
• Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Contemporaries
• Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Contemporaries
• Holtei, Karl von, 1798-1880 -- Contemporaries
• Horace -- Contemporaries
• Isocrates -- Contemporaries
• Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 1743-1819 -- Contemporaries
• JéroÌ‚me Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, 1784-1860 -- Contemporaries
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Contemporaries
• Juvenal -- Contemporaries
• Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Contemporaries
• Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 -- Contemporaries
• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Contemporaries
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 -- Contemporaries
• Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Contemporaries
• Moliere, 1622-1673 -- Contemporaries
• Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Contemporaries
• Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 -- Contemporaries
• Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907 -- Contemporaries
• Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Contemporaries
• Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 -- Contemporaries
• Pombal, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquês de, 1699-1782 -- Contemporaries
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Contemporaries
• Résseguier, Jules de, 1788-1862 -- Contemporaries
• Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775-1867 -- Contemporaries
• Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696 -- Contemporaries
• Sand, Karl Ludwig, 1795-1820 -- Contemporaries
• Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 -- Contemporaries
• Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832 -- Contemporaries
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Contemporaries
• Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Contemporaries
• Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 -- Contemporaries
• Voltaire, 1694-1778 -- Contemporaries
• Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Contemporaries
• Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Contemporaries

• Livre d'hommage des lettres françaises à Émile Zola (Société libre d'édition des gens de lettres ;, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lexikon zur Goethe-Litteratur; biographisches Nachschlagebuch über diejenigen Personen, mit welchen Goethe vorzugsweise verkehrt, oder über welche derselbe in seinen Schriften ein Urtheil gefällt hat und über die Schriftsteller, welche über "ihn" geschrieben haben. (Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1899), by Emil von Grossheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Stellung der Schwaben zu Goethe (W. Kohlhammer, 1915), by Frank Thiess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hölderlins begegnung mit Goethe und Schiller (Elwert, 1925), by Rudolf Fahrner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspere and his forerunners; studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English (Doubleday, Page & co., 1902), by Sidney Lanier and Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's Warwickshire contemporaries (Shakespeare head press, 1907), by Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Napoléon et Canova (London : Printed for Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuttel, jun. and Richter, Soho-Square, 1825., 1825), by Antonio Canova (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's earlier style. Being the Harness prize essay for the year 1885. (Macmillan and Bowes, 1886), by A. W. Verity (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Patrizi memoirs; a Roman family under Napoleon, 1796-1815 (Brentano's, 1915), by Maddalena Gondi Patrizi-Naro-Montoro, J. Crawford Fraser, and Mrs. Hugh Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Napoleon in exile, or, A voice from St. Helena : the opinions and reflections of Napoleon on the most important events of his life and government, in his own words (New York : Published by R. Norris Henry, 129 Broadway, and E. Littell, 88 Chestnut-St., Philadelphia, 1823., 1823), by Barry Edward O'Meara and Emperor of the French Napoleon I (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation des événements arrivés à Sainte Hélène, postérieurement à la nomination de Sir Hudson-Lowe, au gouvernement de cette île, en réponse à une brochure anonyme, intitulée : Faits démonstratifs des traitements qu'on a fait éprouver à Napoléon Bonaparte, confirmés par une correspondance et des documents officiels, etc. (Chaumerot, jeune, 1819), by Barry Edward O'Meara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires de Fleury de Chaboulon, ex-secrétaire de l'empereur Napoléon et de son cabinet : pour servir à l'histoire de la Vie Privée, du Retour et du Règne de Napoléon en 1815 avec annotations manuscrites de Napoléon Ier (Paris : Edouard Rouveyre, Éditeur, 76 rue Seine, 76, 1901., 1901), by Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon, Charles Lahure, Edouard Rouveyre, and Lucien Cornet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Usd al-ghābah fī maʻrifat al-ṣaḥābah (Jamʻiyat al-Maʻārif, 1868), by 'Izz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr (page images at HathiTrust)

• John Quincy Adams' opinions of his contemporaries (1914), by Nellie Althea Chase and State University of Iowa. Graduate College (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ernst Moritz Arndt und Stralsund (Druck u. Verlag der kgl. Regierungs-Buchdruckerei, 1922), by Erich Gülzow and Ernst Moritz Arndt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The contemporaries of Burns, and the more recent poets of Ayrshire, with selections from their writings. (AMS Press, 1976), by James Paterson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy (second edition, 2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by Leigh Hunt
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Les ennemis de Chapelain. (Fontemoing, 1897), by Antonin Fabre (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dante's Eclogues (the poetical correspondence between Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio) (The Cornhill publishing company, 1927), by Dante Alighieri, Wilmon Brewer, and Giovanni del Virgilio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio, including a critical edition of the text of Dante's Eclogae Latinae, and of the poetic remains of Giovanni del Virgilio. (A. Constable, 1902), by Dante Alighieri, Edmund G. Gardner, Philip Henry Wicksteed, and fl. 1319 Giovanni del Virgilio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dante e Brunetto : con nuova interpretazione dei canti XV e XVI dell'"Inferno" (Prem. tip. cooperativa varesina, 1911), by Pasquale Fornari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio (A. Constable & co., ltd., 1902), by Dante Alighieri, Edmund Garratt Gardner, Philip H. Wicksteed, and del Virgilio Giovanni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dante's Zeitalter. (R. Kuntze, 1852), by H. Naudh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charles Dickens and other Victorians, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg ebook)

• Paul Hentzner's Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (based on the 1797 edition; Naunton fragment omitted; spelling modernized), by Paul Hentzner, ed. by Horace Walpole (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Elizabeth and Mary Stuart (Houghton Mifflin company, 1914), by Frank Arthur Mumby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two English queens and Philip (G. P. Putnam's sons; [etc., etc.], 1908), by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Joseph Fruscione (PDF at Ohio State)

• Das literarische Berlin von 1840-1860 : Autobiographisches aus von Zwanzig bis Ddreissig : Chr. Friedrich Scherenberg (S. Fischer, 1923), by Theodor Fontane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• My friendly contemporaries: a literary log (The Macmillan company, 1932), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries (based on the 1876 H. S. King edition, with annotated names; 2012), by C. Kegan Paul, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)

• Lexikon zur Goethe-Litteratur; biographisches Nachschlagebuch über diejenigen Personen, mit welchen Goethe vorzugsweise verkehrt, oder über welche derselbe in seinen Schriften ein Urtheil gefällt hat und über die Schriftsteller, welche über "ihn" geschrieben haben. (Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1899), by Emil von Grossheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe und Beethoven (Rotapfel-verlag a.-g., 1928), by Romain Rolland and Anton Kippenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Stellung der Schwaben zu Goethe (W. Kohlhammer, 1915), by Frank Thiess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hölderlins begegnung mit Goethe und Schiller (Elwert, 1925), by Rudolf Fahrner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe und seine Widersacher; oder, Der neue deutsche kritische Parnass, mit Einleitung und einigen Seitenfugen. (B.F. Voigt, 1837), by Karl Reck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethes Gespräche (F. W. v. Biedermann, 1889), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Otto Lyon, and Woldemar Biedermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Falk und Goethe (Rats- und Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von Adlers Erben, G. m. b. H., 1912), by Ernst Witte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über Schillers Einfluss auf Goethes Dichtung (Columbia University Libraries, 1886), by Richard Borges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethe und Napoleon... (Huber & co., buchdr., 1899), by Andreas Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe; ses prećurseurs et ses contemporains: Klopstock, Lessing, Herder, Wieland, Lavater; la jeunesse de Goethe, avec un discours sur les caracteres de la littérature clasique en Allemagne. (Hachette et cie, 1872), by Adolphe Bossert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wilhelm Raabes Verhältnis zu Goethe : ein Beitrag zur Weltanschauun des Humoristen ([s.n.], 1921), by Hermann Zimmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Goethe'sche Zeitalter der deutschen Dichtung (W. Engelmann, 1891), by Eduard Grisebach, Clemens Brentano, and Wilhelm Heinse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Göthe und Einer seiner Bewundrer : ein Stück Lebensgeschichte (A. Duncker, 1840), by Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Goethe und seinen Trabanten. (Deutsche Bibliothek, 1918), by Wilhelm Scherer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe und Klopstock ... (W. Engelmann, 1842), by Freimund Pfeiffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erinnerungen : nebst zahlreichen unveröffentlichten Dokumenten aus der Goethezeit (Sibyllen-Verlag, 1926), by Karoline Jagemann and Eduard von Bamberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber den Göthischen Briefwechsel. (W. Engelmann, 1836), by Georg Gottfried Gervinus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études sur Goethe (A. Colin, 1906), by Paul Stapfer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die stellung der schwaben zu goethe ... (druck von W. Kohlhammer, 1914), by Frank Thiess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Erinnerungen an Goethe ([A. Hasse], 1919), by Ulrike Levetzow and August Sauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe and August von Kotzebue (F. Hirt, 1910), by Gerhard Stenger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe e il poeta italiano Domenico Batacchi. ([Palermo, 1891), by Reinhold Koehler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weimarsche Briefe. (Leipzig, 1865), by Karl Sigmund Seckendorff and August Diezmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lebens-Erinnerungen. (M. Diesterweg, 1872), by Maria Belli-Gontard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethe, ses prećurseurs et ses contemporains: Klopstock, Lessing, Herder, Wieland, Lavater; la jeunesse de Goethe. (Hachette et cie, 1903), by Adolphe Bossert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe und Fichte. (Buchdruckerei Mattig, 1904), by Robert Julius Eduard Neumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schleiermacher und Goethe. (J. C. Hinrichs, 1913), by Heinrich Scholz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethes Ausgewählte Gespräche (Hesse & Becker, 1912), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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