Note 318 — Chapter III · OSSIAN’S INFLUENCE UPON KLOPSTOCK AND THE SO–CALLED BARDS. (continued 2)
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Gottlob David Hartmann, 1752–75, who in a letter to Denis, dated Tübingen, Sept. 24, 1772, confesses that he owes everything to him (Denis) and his Ossian. (Cf. Retzer, Denis’ Lit. Nachlass, 1801–2, Vol. 2, p. 194.) Hartmann has a poem An den Barden Rhingulph, which begins (Alm. der deutschen Musen for 1773, p. 12): “O Hermanns Barde, der Du an Ossians Empörtem Busen Schlachtengesang gehorcht,” and in which the word Telyn is also used (p. 13). [318]