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See also:DROSHKY (Russ. drozhki, diminutive of drogi, a See also:wagon) , a See also:light four-wheeled uncovered See also:carriage used in See also:Russia . Properly it consists of two pairs of wheels joined by a See also:board . This forms a seat for the passengers who sit sideways, while the See also:driver sits astride in front . The word Droschke, however, is applied especially in See also:Germany to light carriages generally which ply for hire . DROSTE-HULSHWFF, ANNETI'E ELISABETH, FREIIN VON (1797-1848), See also:German poet, was See also:born at the See also:family seat of Hulshoff near See also:Munster in See also:Westphalia on the loth of See also:January 1797 . Her See also:early See also:mental training was largely influenced by her See also:cousin, Clemens See also:August, Freiherr von Droste zu Vischering, who, as See also:archbishop of See also:Cologne, became notorious for his extreme ultramontane views (see below) ; and she received a more liberal See also:education than in those days ordinarily See also:fell to a woman's See also:lot . After prolonged visits among the intellectual circles at See also:Coblenz, See also:Bonn and Cologne, she retired to the See also:estate of Ruschhaus near Munster, belonging to her See also:mother's family . In 1841, owing to delicate See also:health, she went to reside in the See also:house of her See also:brother-in-See also:law, the well-known See also:scholar, See also:Joseph, Freiherr von Lassberg (1770-1855), at Schloss Meersburg on the See also:Lake of See also:Constance, where she met Levin See also:Schucking (q.v.); and there she died on the 24th of May 1848 . Annette von Droste-Hulshoffis, beyond doubt, the most gifted and See also:original of German See also:women poets . Her See also:verse is strong and vigorous, but often unmusical even to harshness; one looks in vain for a See also:touch of sentimentality or melting sweetness in it . As a lyric poet, she is at her best when she is able to attune her thoughts to the sober landscape of the Westphalian moorlands of her See also:home . Her narrative See also:poetry, and especially Das Hospiz auf dem Grossen St See also:Bernard and See also:Die Schlacht See also:im Loener Bruck (both 1838), belongs to the best German poetry of its See also:kind .
She was a strict See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and her religious poems, published in 852, after her See also:death, under the See also:title Das geistliche Jahr, nebst einem Anhang religioser Gedichte, enjoyed See also:great popularity
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Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's Gedichte were first published in 1844 during her lifetime, and a number of her poems were translated into See also:English by See also:
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