There is no such thing as a Swiss national vernacular literature properly speaking, this being explained by the diversity between the states of which it is composed, which has not favoured any common intellectual life.
By their united exertions the antiquated traditions of German literature were broken down to a large extent, while great praise was bestowed on English poets, Shakespeare, Milton and others.
The knight Othon of Grandson is the earliest figure in the literature of the Suisse romande.
Arrowsmith, William Ayres (1945): The Literary Soil, An Essay in the Sociology of Literature.
Foulk, Mary Warren (1991): Literature that "Dares and Defies:" Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
Tompkins, II, Clavin (1947): Myth and Literature: The Recurrence of a Mythical Pattern in The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.
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