Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann (18 May 1737, in Lauban5 January 1805) was a German

Romantic poet Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18t ...

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lipogram A lipogram (from grc, λειπογράμματος, ''leipográmmatos'', "leaving out a letter") is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is a ...

matist. He is best known for his dislike of the letter R. The letter does not appear in any of his 130 poems. He is even said to have eliminated it from his daily speech, refusing to say his last name for over seventeen years.''Lipogrammatic Works of Fiction'' by 'Forthright'. The Phrontistery; retrieved 14 February 2009.
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1737 births 1805 deaths People from Lubań People from the Electorate of Saxony German poets German male poets {{Germany-poet-stub