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PALTOCK, ROBERT (1697-1767)

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PALTOCK, See also:ROBERT (1697-1767) , See also:English writer, the only son of See also:Thomas Paltock of St See also:James's, See also:Westminster, was See also:born in 1697. He became an See also:attorney and lived for some See also:time in See also:Clement's See also:Inn, whence he removed, before 1759, to Back See also:Lane, See also:Lambeth. He married See also:Anna See also:Skinner, through whom his son, also named Robert, inherited a small See also:property at Ryme Intrinseca, See also:Dorset. There Robert Paltock, who died in See also:London on the 20th of See also:March 1767, was buried. Paltock owes his fame to his romantic See also:Life and Adventures of See also:Peter See also:Wilkins (1751), which excited the admiration of men like See also:Coleridge, See also:Southey, See also:Charles See also:Lamb, See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott and See also:Leigh See also:Hunt. It has been several times reprinted, notably with an introduction by Mr A. H. Bullen in 1884. It was translated into See also:French (1763) and into See also:German (1767). PALUDAN-See also:MULLER, FREDERIK (1809-1876), Danish poet, was the third son of Jens Paludan-Muller, from 183o to 1845 See also:bishop of See also:Aarhus, and born at Kjerteminde in Fiinen, on the 7th of See also:February 1809. In 1819 his See also:father was transferred to See also:Odense, and Frederik began to attend the Latin school there. In 1828 he passed to the university of See also:Copenhagen.

In 1832 he opened his poetical career with Four Romances, and a romantic See also:

comedy entitled Kjcerlighed ved ho See also:jet (" Love at See also:Court "). This enjoyed a considerable success, and was succeeded in 1833 by Dandserinden (" The Dancing Girl "). Paludan-Muller was accepted by See also:criticism without a struggle, and few writers have excited less hostility than he. He was not, however, well inspired in his lyrical See also:drama of Amor and See also:Psyche in 1834 nor in his See also:Oriental See also:tale of Zuleimas flugt (" Zuleima's See also:Flight ") in 1835, in each of which he was too vividly influenced by See also:Byron. But heregained all that he had lost by his two volumes of poems in 1836 and 1838. From 1838 to 184o Paludan-Muller was making the See also:grand tour in See also:Europe and his See also:genius greatly See also:expanded; in See also:Italy he wrote See also:Venus, a lyrical poem of extreme beauty. In the same See also:year, 1841, he began to publish a See also:great See also:work on which he had See also:long been engaged, and which he did not conclude until 1848; this was See also:Adam Homo, a narrative epic, satirical, See also:modern and descriptive,into which Paludan-Muller wove all his variegated impressions of See also:Denmark and of love. This remains the typical classic of Danish poetical literature. In 1844 he composed three enchanting idylls, Dryadens bryllup (" The Dryad's See also:Wedding ") Tithon (" See also:Tithonus ") and Abels dad (" The See also:Death of See also:Abel "). From r85o a certain decline in the poet's See also:physical See also:energy became See also:manifest and he wrote less. His majestic drama of Kaianus belongs to 1854. Then for seven years he kept silence.

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Para disel (" See also:Paradise ") 1861; and Benedikt fra Nurcia (" See also:Benedict of Nurcia ") 1861; See also:bear See also:evidence of malady, both physical and See also:mental. Paludan-Muller wrote considerably after this, but never recovered his See also:early raptures, except in the very latest of all his poems, the enchanting welcome to death, entitled See also:Adonis. The poet lived a very retired life, first in Copenhagen, then for many years in a cottage on the outskirts of the royal See also:park of Fredensborg, and finally in a See also:house in Ny Adelgade, Copenhagen, where he died on the 27th of See also:December 1876. (E.

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