The German Classics, Vol. 14
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Excerpt from The German Classics, Vol. 14: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated Into English The works of Gottfried Keller form the most valuable contribution that Switzerland has made to German literature during the nineteenth century. Numbering less than five per cent. Of the German-speaking inhabitants of Europe the Swiss have at all times contributed to the sum total of German culture out of all proportion to their small numbers. Political freedom is the secret of their superiority. The Swiss are the only Germans that have succeeded throughout the centuries in maintaining the old Germanic principle of self-government. They show the effects of free political institutions in the same way as the English, though on a smaller scale. They are practical, sober, self-reliant, even, at times, pugnacious. Their patriotism is intense, almost religious, but it is tempered by the consciousness of the small size of their country, and unlike the English love of country, does not degenerate into contempt for other nations. Gottfried Keller in his life and in his works shows these qualities. They served to restrain and to prune his powerful imagination, they guarded him against the literary and moral extravagances that have spoiled so much of the work of the German Romanticists, they gave to his romantic moods a solid back-ground of reality. Gottfried Keller´s life is undramatic but full of human interest. He was born in Zurich in the year 1819 of good Swiss stock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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