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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Karl August Förster (1784–1841)

Förster, Karl August (fėr’ster). A German poet and translator of poetry; born in Naumburg on the Saale, April 3, 1784; died in Dresden, Dec. 18, 1841. His versions of Petrarch, of Tasso’s choicer lyric verse, and of Dante’s ‘New Life’ (1841) won admiration. He wrote a work on ‘Raphael’ (1827), and published a volume of ‘Poems’ (1842).