Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (April 24, 1845 – December 29, 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. Jump to: navigation, search April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
CarlSpitteler was born in the town of Liestal, near Basel.
Spitteler did not respond immediately but later referred to the book during a lecture and said that his Prometheus and Epimethus meant nothing, "that he might just as well have sung, 'Spring is come, tra-la-la-la'".
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.
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