Apparat / Kommentar (Nr. 1-131)

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Walter de Gruyter, 1982 - 501 pages

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) is one of the most important figures in the history of German literature. He is seen as paving the way for the age of sentimentalism, Sturm und Drang, and the literature of experience. Klopstock was an ingenious linguistic innovator, and he established a body of work of lasting significance with his epic "The Messiah", and with his odes, dramas and poetic writings. With his wide network of connections with Enlightenment poets and thinkers, he was a focus of the intellectual world of his age.

The Hamburg Klopstock Edition is the first complete critical edition of Klopstock's works and letters. It contains complete versions of all of the texts available in both printed and manuscript form and presents them in their historical contexts. Much of this material was previously unknown or unpublished and has been neglected in Klopstock research.

The comprehensiveness of the material and the editorial methods employed make the Hamburg Edition a firm foundation for research into Klopstock and his age.

The edition is divided into three sections, "Works," "Letters," and "Addenda."

The "Works" section contains both the complete texts and critical, historical analyses of all of the literary and theoretical texts that Klopstock wrote and revised. The section not only includes previously unpublished works from the "Gelehrtenrepublik" (Republic of Scholars) and the "Grammatische Gespräche" (Grammatical Conversations) along with Klopstock's translations of Classical works but also demonstrates the breadth of variation within the works themselves which is typical of Klopstock's constant striving for perfection in the content and linguistic form of a text.

 

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Contents

Section 1
271
Section 2
282
Section 3
314
Section 4
319
Section 5
339
Section 6
377
Section 7
397
Section 8
431
Section 18
558
Section 19
560
Section 20
576
Section 21
589
Section 22
594
Section 23
601
Section 24
602
Section 25
605

Section 9
443
Section 10
463
Section 11
468
Section 12
487
Section 13
509
Section 14
522
Section 15
527
Section 16
543
Section 17
555
Section 26
619
Section 27
625
Section 28
637
Section 29
638
Section 30
684
Section 31
703
Section 32
708
Section 33
730
Section 34
744

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