num_pages: 322
description: Kohl's revised doctoral thesis (U. of London, 1988) analyzes Klopstock's poems and shows their rhetorical structure and the biblical foundations of language, imagery and free-verse form. Includes appendices containing the text of poems in free verse (in German), biblical material in five early hymns, and a collation of selected editions of Klopstock's works. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
language: English
title: Rhetoric, the Bible, and the Origins of Free Verse: The Early "Hymns" of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
titlecomplete: Rhetoric, the Bible, and the Origins of Free Verse: The Early "Hymns" of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR SPRACH-UND KULTURGESCHICHTE DER GERMANISCHEN VOLKER, NF)
publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc