Gottfried August Bürger

(1747-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747-1794 LBT ID: GoBurge1794 VIAF ID: 95167251 LOC ID: n50045566	B/BAP: 1747-12-31 DIED: 1794-06-08
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German poet, the author of the much admired and imitated gothic ballad “Lenore.”
REFERENCES TO Gottfried August Bürger: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 6 July 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 31 July 1796 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Ramsay of Ochtertyre to Walter Scott, 30 November 1796 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1786-90 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 55 Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 1: ¶ 22 Chapter XI 1826 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 30 ¶ n1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Taste for the Gothic Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IV. 1796 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 116 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 85 Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 9