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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 thin

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Author
Hibberd, John
Publisher
Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press
Published
1976
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521212342
Category
biography
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Memoir, Literary Criticism
Updated
2026-03-25

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