As soon as it was published, the correspondence between Jakob Mauvillon (17431794) and Ludwig August Unzer (17481774), Ueber den Werth einiger Deutschen Dichter [On the Value of Some German Poets], unleashed a storm of outrage. While the authors critically dissect and dismantle Gellert's entire poetic oeuvre in the first part, in the second part they carry out a ranking of German poets.

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Arne Klawitter, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.