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HOLTY, See also:LUDWIG HEINRICH CHRISTOPH (1748-1776) , See also:German poet, was See also:born on the 21st of See also:December 1748 at the See also:village of Mariensee in See also:Hanover, where his See also:father was pastor. In 1769 he went to study See also:theology at See also:Gottingen. Here he formed a See also:close friendship with J. M. See also:Miller, J. H. See also:Voss, H. See also:Boie, the See also:brothers See also:Stolberg and others, and became one of the founders of the famous society of See also:young poets known as the Gottinger Dichterbund or Hain. When in 1774 he See also:left the university he had abandoned all intention of becoming a clergyman; but he was not destined to enter any other profession. He died of See also:consumption on the 1st of See also:September 1776 at Hanover. Holty was the most gifted lyric poet of the Gottingen circle. He was influenced both by Uz and See also:Klopstock, but his love for the Volkslied and his delight in nature preserved him from the artificiality of the one poet and the unworldliness of the other.

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strain of See also:melancholy runs through all his lyrics. His See also:ballads are the pioneers of the See also:rich ballad literature on See also:English See also:models, which sprang up in See also:Germany during the next few years. Among his most See also:familiar poems may be mentioned Ub' immer Treu' and Redlichkeit, Tanzt dem schonen See also:Mai enigegen, Rosen auf dem Weg gestreul, and Wer wollte sick mit Grillen plagen? Holty's Gedichte were published by his See also:friends See also:Count See also:Friedrich See also:Leopold zu Stolberg and J. H. Voss (See also:Hamburg, 1783) ; a newedition, enlarged by Voss, with a See also:biography (1804); a more See also:complete but still imperfect edition by F. Voigts (Hanover, 1857). The first complete edition was that of Karl See also:Halm (See also:Leipzig, 187o), who had See also:access to See also:MSS. not hitherto known. See H. Ruete, Holty, sein Leben and Dichten (See also:Guben, 1883), and A. Sauer, Der Gottinger Dichterbund, vol. ii. (See also:Stuttgart, 1894), where an excellent selection of Holty's See also:poetry will be found.

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