Gustav Adolfs Page (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Gustav Adolfs PageIt should be especially noticed that Meyer is a native of Switzerland, where he has always lived, with the exception of the time spent in foreign travel. Switzerland has borne a noble part in German literature. Every now and then, when affectation and artificiality threaten to corrupt public taste, when literary judgment in Germany appears to proceed from a few self-constituted dictators in the realm of aesthetics, a fresh breeze seems to blow from the Alps, and the atmosphere of fields and ¿owers again per vades the literature of Germany. It was Albrecht von Hal ler, who, although not personally engaged in the battles of the Gottsched with the bodmer-breitinger school, fur nished in Die Alpen the most formidable weapon to the latter. And in our own days, too, while hyper-sentimental ism and realism are fighting their paper-battles, two men from Switzerland, Gottfried Keller and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, urge by example, not with words, a return to nature. Gottfried Keller has completed his career, and it is easy to judge his literary character. Perhaps also it is not too soon to form a conclusive estimate of Meyer, for the compactness, truth, and even severity of his literary belief, compels us to expect that any succeeding work from his pen, at his advanced age, will fully harmonize in tone with those which we already possess.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.