"Alcaic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leaving the latter school, he had the reputation among his fellow-students of being an excellent Hellenist, according to the report of Schwab, his biographer. It was while there that Hoelderlin as a boy of seventeen first made use of the Alcaic measure in which he subsequently wrote so many of ...
— Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry • Wilhelm Alfred Braun |
