burger
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Gottfried August Bürger, in particular, was a poet who may be said to have been made by the English ballad literature, of which he was an ardent student.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Wieland, Merck, Bürger, Madame de Staël, Karl August, and other great people sought her acquaintance.
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Begbie, Harold
His early poems are echoes of Klopstock, Matthisson, Hölty, Bürger, and other predecessors; but especially of Schiller, whose moral seriousness and sonorous language alike inspired the serious and rhetorically gifted youth.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
They were much of Scott’s mind when he was young, and translated Bürger, and “wished to heaven he had a skull and cross-bones.”
From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew
Bürger which contrasts the naked rights of labor with the historic rights of rank in so sharp a fashion that, if it should be published today, it would undoubtedly be confiscated as communist literature.
