pseudo-gallic

Updated: January 11, 2026

Gottsched, who greatly contributed toward the reformation of German literature, still retained the stilted Alexandrine and the pseudo-Gallic imitation of the ancient dramatists to which Lessing put an end. Lessing wrote his "Dramaturgy" at Hamburg, recommended Shakespeare and other English authors as models, but more particularly nature.

Wolfgang Menzel - Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4