Salomon Gessner
by
John Hibberd
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Anglica Germanica Series 2
ISBN-10
0521157838
ISBN-13
9780521157834
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 21st, 2011
Print length
202 Pages
Weight
274 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.00 x 1.30 cms
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At a time when German was despised as barbaric, Salomon Gessner was hailed as a poet of universal significance. Yet today he is scarcely known. This 1976 book contextualises the writer, traces the story of his impact and stresses his significance as a key to the taste of his age.
At a time when German was generally despised as a barbaric tongue, Salomon Gessner was hailed in Europe as a poet of universal significance. Yet today he is scarcely known. John Hibberd sets the writer in context, traces the story of his impact, and stresses his significance as a key to the taste of his age. He finds the reasons for Gessner's remarkable success in his appeal to the feeling for nature and natural simplicity nascent in the mid-eighteenth century, and in his ability to be many things to many men by reconciling the main cultural trends of that time - Pre-Romanticism and Neo-Classicism. Originally published in 1976, this was the first book on the subject in English. It went beyond previous books on Gessner in both detail and scope; it called for a greater appreciation of Gessner's historical importance, but also assesed his achievements as a writer, engraver and painter.
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