Definition of Klopstock

1. Noun. German poet (1724-1803).

Exact synonyms: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Klopstock

Klingonaase
Klingonist
Klingonists
Klingons
Klippel
Kln
Klokan
Klokann
Klokans
Klokard
Klokards
Klondike
Klondikes
Klopstock (current term)
Kloran
Klorvess
Klumpke's paralysis
Klumpke palsy
Klutz
Kluver
Kluver-Barrera Luxol fast blue stain
Kluxer
Klymenê
Klyuchevskaya
Km
Km allotypes

Literary usage of Klopstock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"He began as an imitator of Klopstock and a friend of Bodmer's, but all his riper work and influence belong to " classicism." He had, it must be admitted, ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB Klopstock* (1724-1803) BY KUNO FRANCKE wAS in 1748, the same year in which Frederick the Great, in the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, ..."

3. Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from "the Beginning by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1853)
"These letters of Mrs. Klopstock were addressed to Richardson the novelist, ... Klopstock came, and came to me. I must confess, that, though greatly ..."

4. A Brief History of German Literature: Based on Gotthold Klee's "Grundzüge by George Madison Priest, Gotthold Klee (1909)
"Here Klopstock received instruction in religion, literature, ... In the autumn of 1745 Klopstock began the study of theology at the university in Jena, ..."

5. A History of German Literature as Determined by Social Forces by Kuno Francke (1901)
"Klopstock. It was in 1748, the same year in which Frederick, in the peace of Aix-Ia-Chapelle, achieved his first great political triumph, that Friedrich ..."

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