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). | |