Klopstock

[ klawp-shtawk ]

noun

1. Frie·drich Gott·lieb [free, -d, r, i, kh, , gawt, -leep], 1724–1803, German poet.

Klopstock

/ ˈklɔpʃtɔk /

noun

1. KlopstockFriedrich Gottlieb17241803MGermanWRITING: poet Friedrich Gottlieb (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈɡɔtliːp). 1724–1803, German poet, noted for his religious epic Der Messias (1748–73) and for his odes

Example Sentences

It seems to me that such verses as these might very well have satisfied the English admirers of Klopstock.

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He spent the next twelve years in Copenhagen, where he was intimate with Klopstock.

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In 1770 Klopstock returned to Hamburg, where he died in 1803.

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For the rest, when out of the shadow of Klopstock or Cowper, Blake had enough serious work on hand.

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It is remarkable that it was the German poet Klopstock who made skating fashionable in Germany.

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