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Kleist   /klaɪst/   Listen
Kleist

noun
1.
German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811).  Synonyms: Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist, Heinrich von Kleist.






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"Kleist" Quotes from Famous Books



... only later joined the landing corps of the Emden, "we suddenly saw a three-master arrive. Great excitement aboard our German ship, for the schooner carried the German war flag. We thought she came from New Guinea and at once made all boats clear, on the Kleist, Rheinland, and Choising, for we were all on the search for the Emden. When we heard that the schooner carried the landing corps, not a man ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... unfortunately, still found in the curriculum of many colleges. In contrast with the small number of good elementary texts, there exists an abundance of excellent material for the second group. Aside from the classical poets, the novelists Keller, Meyer, Fontane, Raabe; the dramatists Hebbel, Grillparzer, Kleist, Hauptmann; poems collected in the Balladenbuch or the Ernte present an inexhaustible wealth, without our having to resort to the literary rubbish of Benedix or Moser or the sneering ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper



Words linked to "Kleist" :   Heinrich von Kleist, dramatist, playwright



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