JENS IMMANUEL See also:

• JENS IMMANUEL BAGGESEN (1764-1826)

BAGGESEN (1764-1826)  , Danish poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 15th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1764 at See also:

• KORSOR

Korsor . His parents were very poor, and before he was twelve he was sent to copy documents at the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of the clerk of the See also:

• DISTRICT

district . He was a See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy, feeble See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, and before this he had attempted See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide more than once . By dint of indomitable perseverance, he managed to gain an See also:

• EDUCATION

education, and in 1782 entered the university of See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen . His success as a writer was coeval with his earliest publication; his Comical Tales in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, poems that recall the Broad Grins that See also:

• COLMAN, GEORGE (1732–1794)
• COLMAN, SAINT (d. 676)
• COLMAN, SAMUEL (1832– )

Colman the younger brought out a See also:

• DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade later, took the See also:

• TOWN

town by See also:

• STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger.; in O. H. Ger. and mod. Ger. Sturm; the root is probably that seen in " stir," to rouse, move, disturb, cf. Ger. storen)
• STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

storm, and the struggling See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young poet found himself a popular favourite at twenty-one . He then tried serious lyrical See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, and his tact, elegance ofmanner and versatility, gained him a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the best society . This sudden success received a See also:

• BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow in 1789. when a very poor See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera, Halge Danske, which he had produced, was received with mockery and a reaction against him set in . He See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• DENMARK
• DENMARK (Danmark)

Denmark in a rage and spent the next years in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland . He married at Berne in 1790, began to write in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German and published in that See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language his next poem, Alpenlied .. In the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter of the same See also:

• YEAR

year he returned to his See also:

• MOTHER

mother-See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, bringing with him as a See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace-offering his See also:

• FINE

fine descriptive poem, the See also:

• LABYRINTH (Gr. Xa(3vpcvOos, Lat. labyrinthus)

Labyrinth, in Danish, and was received with unbounded See also:

• HOMAGE (from homo, through the Low Lat. hominaticum, which occurs in a document of 1035)

homage . The next twenty years were spent in incessant restless wanderings over the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris latterly becoming his nominal See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home . He continued to publish volumes alternately in Danish and German .

Of the latter the most important was the idyllic epos in hexameters called Parthenais (1803) . In 18o6 he. returned to Copenhagen to find the young See also:

• OHLENSCHLAGER, ADAM GOTTLOB (1779-1850)

Ohlenschlager installed as the See also:

• GREAT

great poet of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, and he himself beginning to lose his previously unbounded popularity . Until 182o he resided in Copenhagen, in almost unceasing See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• FEUD

feud with some one or other, abusing and being abused; the most important feature of the whole being See also:

• BAGGESEN, JENS IMMANUEL (1764-1826)

Baggesen's determination not to allow Ohlenschlager to be considered a greater: poet than himself . He then left Denmark for the last See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time and went back to his beloved Paris, where he lost his second wife and youngest child in . 1822, and after the miseries of an imprisonment for See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt, See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell at last into a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of hopeless melancholy madness . In 1826, having slightly recovered, he wished to see Denmark once more, but died in the freemasons' See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital at See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg on his way, on the 3rd of See also:

• OCTOBER

October, and was buried at See also:

• KIEL

Kiel . His many-sided talents achieved success in all forms of writing, but his domestic, philosophical and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• WORKS

works have See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long ceased, to occupy See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . A little more See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of restraining his egotism and See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion would have made him one of the wittiest and keenest of See also:

• MODERN

modern satirists, and his comic poems are deathless . The Danish literature owes Baggesen a great debt for the firmness, See also:

• POLISH

polish and See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form which he introduced into it—his See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style being always finished and elegant . With all his faults he stands as the greatest figure between See also:

• HOLBERG, LUDVIG HOLBERG, BARON (1684-1754)

Holberg and Ohlenschlager . Of all his poems, however, the loveliest and best is a little See also:

• SIMPLE

simple See also:

• SONG

song, There was a time when I was very little, which every Dane, high or See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low, knows by See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart, and which is matchless in its simplicity and pathos . It has outlived all his epics .