Klopstock

[klawp-shtawk]

noun

1. Friedrich Gottlieb 1724–1803, German poet.

Klopstock

/ ˈklɔpʃtɔk /

noun

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

Example Sentences

“Do you really think Bruce Willis would agree to be named Klopstock?”

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He was influenced both by Uz and Klopstock, but his love for the Volkslied and his delight in nature preserved him from the artificiality of the one poet and the unworldliness of the other.

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Fix thine eyes on the tablet, and the deeds and thoughts which fill the days of Klopstock shall he traced on it.

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He has exhibited a series of twenty designs from Klopstock's 'Messiah;' amongst which, some of particular interest.

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French and Italian he seems to have been acquainted with so far as he deemed it necessary; but his principal literary studies were confined to Lessing, Bürger, Wieland, and Klopstock.

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