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

Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818)

Kosegarten, Ludwig Gotthard (kō’sė-gär-ten). A German poet; born at Grevesmühlen, Feb. 1, 1758; died at Greifswald, Oct. 26, 1818. His novels and dramas were commonplace, but his poetry was of a higher order. Among his most successful volumes of verse were: ‘Romantic Poems’ (6 vols., 1800); ‘Rhapsodies’ (3 vols., 1804); ‘The Island Journey’ (1804); ‘Legends’ (2 vols., 1816).