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See also:BROCKES, BARTHOLD HEINRICH (1680-1747) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg on the 22nd of See also:September 1680. He studied See also:jurisprudence at See also:Halle, and after extensive travels in See also:Italy, See also:France and See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, settled in his native See also:town in 1704. In 1720 he was appointed a member of the Hamburg See also:senate, and entrusted with several important offices. Six years (from 1735 to 1741) he spent as Amtmann (See also:magistrate) at Ritzebuttel. He died in Hamburg on the 16th of See also:January 1747. Brockes' poetic See also:works were published in a See also:series of nine volumes under the fantastic See also:title Irdisches Vergniigen in Gott (1721-1748); he also translated See also:Marini's La Strage degli innocenti (1715), See also:Pope's See also:Essay on See also:Man (1740) and See also:Thomson's Seasons (1745). His See also:poetry has small See also:intrinsic value, but it is symptomatic of the See also:change which came over German literature at the beginning of the 18th See also:century. 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 See also:simple diction. He was also a See also:pioneer in directing the See also:attention of his countrymen to the new poetry of nature which originated in See also:England. His verses, artificial and crude as they often are, See also:express a reverential attitude towards nature and a religious See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of natural phenomena which was new to German poetry and prepared the way for See also:Klopstock.
Brockes' autobiography was published by J. M. See also:Lappenberg in the Zeitschrift See also:des Vereins See also:fur Hamburger Geschichte, ii. pp. 167 if. (1847). See also A. See also:Brand!, B. H. Brockes (1878), and D. F. See also:Strauss, Brockes and H. S. See also:Reimarus (Gesammelte Schriften, ii.). A See also:short selection of his poetry will be found in vol. 39 (1883) of Kurschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur.
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