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Uhland

[oo-lahnt]
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noun
  1. Jo·hann Lud·wig [yoh-hahn loot-vikh, lood-] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈlut vɪx, ˈlud-/, 1787–1862, German poet and writer.
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  • He could recite you for hours long the ballads of Schiller and the lyrics of Uhland; ah!

    Arthur O'Leary

    Charles James Lever

  • His books, his favorite volumes of Uhland and Tieck, were never opened.

  • "I should like to be to my people what Uhland was to the Germans," he once said to a friend.

    For Every Music Lover

    Aubertine Woodward Moore

  • In what strange contrast with a picture like this, does the beautiful Uhland place some of his nature-colored characters!

  • But Freiligrath, like Uhland and Herwegh, was a man of action and a patriot.

British Dictionary definitions for uhland

Uhland

noun
  1. Johann Ludwig (joˈhan ˈluːtvɪç). 1787–1862, German romantic poet, esp of lyrics and ballads
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