Platen

Madame Kilmansegge, Countess of Platen, is referred to exclusively as "The Sow" in the songs, while the King's favorite mistress, the lean and haggard Madame Schulemburg (afterwards named Duchess of Kendall) was given the name of "The Goose".

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Madame Kilmansegge, Countess of Platen, is referred to exclusively as "The Sow" in the songs, while the King's favorite mistress, the lean and haggard Madame Schulemburg (afterwards named Duchess of Kendall) was given the name of "The Goose".

Great Scots 2009

But it seems strange that, apart from Heine, even the greatest of German lyric poets, such as Platen, Lenau, Mörike,

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892

Platen glass goes right to the edge to accommodate books without strain.

Wired Top Stories Roger Hibbert 2009

Amongst his many correspondents one suggested to him that not only Plato and Julius Cæsar but also Winckelmann and Platen (?) belonged to the Society; and he had found it flourishing in Palermo, the Louvre, the Scottish Highlands and St. Petersburg to name only a few places.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Heck, even Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd patented one design, although Baltzar von Platen invented the first one a few years earlier.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Why is Cuba So Poor?: 2007

Even briefer summary: Heine was a liberal; Platen was a reactionary who got him censored and eventually driven into exile.

languagehat.com: GHASELIG. 2004

I haven't heard Platen referred to as a poetaster.

languagehat.com: GHASELIG. 2004

Heine made the memorable remark that "Count Platen might be a poet, if he had lived in another time and if, besides that, he were also somebody other than himself."

languagehat.com: GHASELIG. 2004

But if Platen slanged Heine with anti-Semitic remarks and got him thrown out of the country, and Heine replied with anti-homosexual remarks, I don't think the exchange was on a terribly literary level!

languagehat.com: GHASELIG. 2004