Commentary on the Works of Jeremias Gotthelf

Download or read book Commentary on the Works of Jeremias Gotthelf written by Gottfried Keller and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Gottfried Keller's 1849 "Jeremias Gotthelf", followed by an Afterword by the translator, a timeline of his life and works and an index of his works. In this work, Keller reviews the short stories by his fellow author Jeremias Gotthelf that appeared at length between 1849 and 1855 in Brockhaus' sheets for literary entertainment . After Keller's death, Baechtold brought the four treatises together, including their postscript commenting on Gotthelf's death, in the order in which they appeared and gave the whole thing the title “Jeremias Gotthelf”. This work is important because it is a main source for Keller's views on poetry and the political and social responsibility of the poet.