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Item Details
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SALOMON GESSNER: HIS CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AND INFLUENCE
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| By: |
John Hibberd |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£19.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521212340 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521212342 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 December, 1976 |
| Series: |
Anglica Germanica Series 2 |
| Pages: |
190 |
| Description: |
This 1976 book contextualises Salomon Gessner, traces the story of his impact and stresses his significance as a key to the taste of his age. |
| Synopsis: |
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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