Excerpt from Romeo Und Julia Auf Dem Dorfe There are readers of German who do not know of Gottfried Keller; to others he is merely a name; others both know and prize him. The last class is daily growing in number.

Keller is neither a Shakespeare nor a Goethe. Neither as a poet nor as a man is he great as, in the history of literature, some half-dozen men have been great. Yet in his distinctive field he reigns supreme in German literature at least and as poet and man he is not without merit.

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