Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey by Martin Opitz

"Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey" by Martin Opitz is a poetics treatise published in 1624. It stands as the first German-language poetics manual, establishing rules for writing poetry across nearly all lyric genres of the period. Born from Renaissance debates about German cultural legitimacy, Opitz's work defends the German language against charges of barbarism while drawing on both ancient classical traditions and contemporary Romance models. His revolutionary prosodic reforms in Chapter VII made proper versification accessible to anyone with natural German language intuition, profoundly shaping German poetry for generations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Opitz, Martin, 1597-1639
Editor Braune, Wilhelm, 1850-1926
Title Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buch_von_der_Deutschen_Poeterey
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 61.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language German
LoC Class PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject Poetics -- Early works to 1800
Category Text
EBook-No. 34806
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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