Salomon Gessner (1730-1788)
Swiss poet whose Idyllen (1756) influenced Southey and other
English writers; he was also the author of a prose epic, Der Tod
Abels (1758) frequently reprinted in the translation by Mary Collyer
(1761).
Swiss poet whose Idyllen (1756) influenced Southey and other
English writers; he was also the author of a prose epic, Der Tod
Abels (1758) frequently reprinted in the translation by Mary Collyer
(1761).