The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English

by Kuno Francke, Berthold Auerbach, Jeremias Gotthelf

Excerpt from The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces of German Literature, Translated Into English

Not suddenly, then, did rural poetry rise into being; but while its origin harks back to remote antiquity it has found its final form only during the last century. In this its last, as well as its most vigorous, offshoot, it presents itself as the village story - as we shall term it for brevity's sake - which has won a permanent place in literature by the side of its older brothers and sisters, and has even entirely driven out the fanciful pastoral or village idyl of old.

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About the author

Kuno Francke (1855-1930) was a U.S. educator and historian. Most of his career was spent at Harvard University where he eventually became a professor of history and German culture and curator of the Germanic Museum.