Klopstock

[ klawp-shtawk ]

/ ˈklɔpˌʃtɔk /

noun

Frie·drich Gott·lieb

[free-drikh gawt-leep] /ˈfri drɪx ˈgɔt lip/,1724–1803, German poet.

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Example sentences from the Web for klopstock

It was to Denmark likewise that Klopstock owed the means of completing his Messias.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller|Thomas Carlyle
He removed with his parents to Dorpat in 1759, and soon began to compose sacred odes, in the manner of Klopstock.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 4|Various
French, therefore, was the only medium of free communication; that being pretty equally familiar to Wordsworth and to Klopstock.
The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II|Thomas De Quincey
The paintings round the room are from the poems of Klopstock, and executed by Wilhelm Kaulbach, an excellent artist.
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected|Anna Jameson

It seems to me that such verses as these might very well have satisfied the English admirers of Klopstock.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various

British Dictionary definitions for klopstock

Klopstock

/ (German ˈklɔpʃtɔk) /

noun

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

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