Gottfried Keller

Hartmann claims it was chiefly this stay in Berlin which molded Keller's character into its final shape toned down his rather bitter pessimism to a more moderate form and prepared him (not without the privations of hunger) in the whirl of a large city for an enjoyment of the more restricted pleasures of his native Zurich. See also
A Village Romeo and Juliet an opera by Frederick Delius
Romeo and Juliet of the Village a translation of Keller's short story
Lyric poetry. In 1840 he went to Munich (Bavaria) to study art for a time at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.