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Encyclopedia > Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (April 24, 1845 _ 1924) was a Swiss poet of visionary imagination and the author of pessimistic yet heroic verse. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919.


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Carl Spitteler (895 words)
Carl Spitteler was born in the town of Liestal, near Basel.
Spitteler described colorfully mythical figures as they fight for power and basically transformed the "waxing and waning of the gods into a myth of the seasons." (Carl Jung) The work was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and compared to Milton's achievements.
Spitteler died on December 28, 1924, in Lucerne.
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