Meta Klopstock

[3][4] Klopstock wrote "I found her, in every sense of the word, so lovely, so amiable, so full of attractions".

[2] Klopstock continued to talk about Meta for the rest of his life, and wrote letters addressed to her spirit.

[2] The academic Detlev Schumann, writing in 1960, said "Astonishing is the erotic frankness in these letters: sometimes amusing and sometimes perplexing.

"[3] He writes that "With a few words she can evoke the mood of a peaceful summer evening on the bank of the Elbe ... describe a crisp winter day in Lingby in a passage that reads like a prose sketch for her husband's later ode "Der Eislauf" ... or give a matter-of-fact account of her household in Copenhagen ... Parts of the correspondence are, for our taste, monotonously effusive [and have] repetitious sentimentality".

[5] French notes that her letters to her women friends and to her sister show "more personal fears and concerns, as well as interaction with her own social world, in general a more diverse gamut of human emotions".

[5] Meta Klopstock's letters received praise in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but were then "forgotten and neglected until 1950".

[10] In that year a collection of the Klopstocks' papers was acquired by the library of the University of Hamburg, and their correspondence published in 1956.

[10] Meta Klopstock was described in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1867 as someone "one might almost take ... as [a] type of the highest caste of national female character".