Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter
Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (3 September 1746 – 18 March 1797) was a German
Biography
He was born at
Work
Gotter was the chief representative of French taste in the German literary life of his time. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, his poetry is elegant and polished, and largely free from the trivialities of the Anacreontic lyric of the earlier generation of imitators of French literature; but he lacked imaginative depth.[2]
His plays, of which Merope (1774), an adaptation in blank verse of the
Gotter's collected Gedichte appeared in 2 vols. in 1787 and 1788; a third volume (1802) contains his Literarischer Nachlass. See B. Litzmann, Schröder und Gotter (1887), and R. Schlösser, F. W. Gotter, sein Leben und seine Werke (1894).[2]
His best known work is the lyrics to the well known lullaby
Notes
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- ^ New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gotter, Friedrich Wilhelm". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 277.
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