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the restriction imposed upon it by French pseudo-classicism. Bodmer's epics _Die Sundfluth_ (1751) and _Noah_ (1751) are weak imitations of Klopstock's _Messias_, and his plays are entirely deficient in dramatic qualities. He did valuable service to German literature by his editions of the Minnesingers and part of the _Nibelungenlied_. He died at Zurich on the 2nd of January 1783. See T.W. Danzel, _Gottsched und seine Zeit_ (Leipzig, 1848); J. Cruger, _J.C. Gottsched, Bodmer und Breitinger_ (Stuttgart, 1884); F. Braitmaier, _Geschichte der poetischen Theorie und Kritik von den Diskursen der Maler bis auf Lessing_ (Leipzig, 1888); _Denkschrift zu Bodmers 200. Geburtstag_ (Zurich, 1900). BODMIN, a market town and municipal borough in the Bodmin parliamentary division of Cornwall, England, the county town, 30-1/2 m. W.N.W. of Plymouth, on branches of the Great Western and London & South-Western railways. Pop. (1901) 5353. It lies between two hills in a short valley opening westward upon that of the Camel, at the southern extremity of the high open Bodmin Moor. The large church of St Petrock, mainly Perpendicular, has earlier portions, and a late Norman font. East of it there is a ruined Decorated chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury, with a crypt. A tower of Tudor date, in the cemetery, marks the site of a chapel of the gild of the Holy Rood. Part of the buildings of a Franciscan friary, founded _c._ 1240, are incorporated in the market-house, and the gateway remains in an altered form. At Bodmin are a prison, with civil and naval departments, the county gaol and asylum, the headquarters of the constabulary, and those of the duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Cattle, sheep and horse fairs are held, and there is a considerable agricultural trade. The borough is under a mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors. Area, 2797 acres. Traces of Roman occupation have been found in the western part of the parish, belonging to the first century A.D. Possibly tin-mining was carried on here at that period. The grant of a charter by King Edred to the prior and canons of Bodmin (Bomine, Bodman, Bodmyn) in respect of lands in Devonshire appears in an _inspeximus_ of 1252. To its ecclesiastical associations it owed its importance at the time of the Domesday survey, when St Petrock held the manor of Bodmin, wherein were sixty-eight houses and one market. To successive priors, as mesne lords, it also owed its earliest m
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