. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . - by expeditions, often difficult andoccasionally dangerous, undertaken with this end. In Germany the war was still raging in the literary field betweenGottsched and the Swiss controversialists, during which there arosea formidable ally to the latter in Klopstock (Fig. 52), the regenera-tor of a truly national poetry. In regard to the value of Klopstocks services to German litera-ture, and especially to the development of the intellectual life of the. Fig 52.—Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.(After a copper-
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . - by expeditions, often difficult andoccasionally dangerous, undertaken with this end. In Germany the war was still raging in the literary field betweenGottsched and the Swiss controversialists, during which there arosea formidable ally to the latter in Klopstock (Fig. 52), the regenera-tor of a truly national poetry. In regard to the value of Klopstocks services to German litera-ture, and especially to the development of the intellectual life of the. Fig 52.—Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.(After a copper-plate engi-aving by , ; original paintiui; byA. Hickel, 1745-1798.) KLOPSTOCK. 319 nation, it is impossible to exaggerate. The poet of the heart, \\\t\\him the outer form of tlie verse is but the medium for the expressionof a remarkable and powerful personality. Even in his youth Klop-stock gave poetic utterance to the enthusiasm for the great Germanfatherland, excited in his and other youtliful minds by the exploitsof Frederick the Great in the Silesian wars. The impression madeon the German heart anil mind by the heroic deeds of this warrioropened up the prospect of an independent and national German lit>erature in place of that derived from or inspired by other after entering the university of Jena, Klopstock prophesiedthat a new singer would arise to the German people who wouldreanimate the genius of the fatherland, and inspire derisive foreign-ere with respect and admiration for it. He soon belie
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