Salomon Gessner

(1730-1788)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788 LBT ID: SoGessn1788 VIAF ID: 19765806 LOC ID: n50016527	B/BAP: 1730-04-01 DIED: 1788-03-02
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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).
REFERENCES TO Salomon Gessner: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 26 March 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron's Cain Found 1: ¶ 2 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XXI. 1791-1796 Found 1: ¶ 26 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 11 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 16 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VIII. 1811-1814