BAG'GESEN,
ent, in spite of his warm-hearted and enthusiastic character. Only a few of his songs exhibit that simplicity and tenderness which are the essential requisites of song-writing; and, besides, they are almost all destitute of originality. Klopstock was the model whom he had in view in the composition of his odes; but he was far from reaching the level of his master. The sphere in which he shone most conspicuously was the seriocomic. His "humorous epic" (as he called it) of Adam. and Eve, published shortly after his death, is a singular mixture of humor, pathos, levity, and earnestness. He left in manuscript a poem of a similar.character on the subject of Faust. His Poetical Works in the (Jerman Language (Leip. 1836, 5 vols.) have been published by his son, who has prefixed to them an excellent biography.