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The studies assembled here provide a comprehensive survey of German
poetry in the early modern age. Penned by an outstanding authority
on neo-Latin and German literature, they supply interpretations of
little-known poetic works of the period and cast a new light on
more familiar works in the literary canon. The immensely detailed
knowledge informing the different articles adds up to a literary
image of the epoch as a whole. The individual poems discussed
provide the basis for these micro-studies in literary history.
Together with a constant concern for their aesthetic form, the
approach achieves an appropriate understanding of these complex
texts. At one and the same time, the volume is an introduction to
the salient issues posed by the epoch in question and a guide to
the present state of research on the poetry of the early modern
age. The rich source material examined and analyzed in the process
both enhances and reshapes our knowledge of the subject.
This is a critical edition, with translation and commentary, of
part of the cycle of elegies entitled AUrania VictrixA (1663), the
important late poetic work of Jacob Baldes, Germany's most
internationally renowned Jesuit poet. The work is not only a
challenging example of edificatory literature faithfully reflecting
the conflicts of the age, but also a compendium of Baroque
knowledge culture, in which the five senses of the human body each
enlarge upon their own experience of the modern world.
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