Duss und underm Rafe

With his poetry, notably Duss und underm Rafe (1891), rooted in the style of the folk song, he helped inaugurate creative and stylistic developments in Swiss poetry. His historical novels, such as Die Jungfer von Wattenwil (1912; “The Maiden of Wattenwil”), and his plays are considered to be of…

…dialect of the Aargau (Duss und underm Rafe, 1891), and Meinrad Lienert wrote several poems in the dialect of Schwyz. Almost every canton has its Mundartdichter, or local poet. There are vigorous novels in the Bernese dialect by the 20th-century writers Rudolf von Tavel and Simon Gfeller. Schaffhausen is…