Barthold Heinrich Brockes
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Barthold Heinrich Brockes (September 22, 1680 – January 16, 1747) was a German poet.
He was born in
Hamburg senate, and entrusted with several important offices. Six years (from 1735 to 1741) he spent as Amtmann
(bailiff) at Ritzebüttel. He died in Hamburg.
Brockes' poetic works were published in a series of nine volumes under the fantastic title Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott (1721–1748); he also translated
passion.[citation needed] It was quite popular and was set to music by Reinhard Keiser (1712), Georg Philipp Telemann (1716), George Frideric Handel (1716), Johann Mattheson (1718), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1723), Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1725), and Johann Caspar Bachofen
(1759), among others.
He was one of the first German poets to substitute for the bombastic imitations of Marini, to which he himself had begun by contributing, a clear and simple diction. He was also a pioneer in directing the attention of his countrymen to the new poetry of nature which originated in England. His verses, artificial and crude as they often are, express a reverential attitude towards nature and a religious interpretation of natural phenomena which was new to German poetry and prepared the way for
Klopstock
.
References
- Brockes' autobiography, published by JM Lappenberg in the Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburger Geschichte, ii. pp. 167 if. (1847)
- Alois Brandl, B. H. Brockes (1878)
- David Strauss, Brockes und H. S. Reimarus (Gesammelte Schriften, ii).
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Brockes, Barthold Heinrich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 624.
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- Works by Barthold Heinrich Brockes at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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