Though often mentioned together with Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg and Johann Wilhelm von Stubenberg, Wolfgang Helmhard Freiherr von Hohberg is less known for his literary talents than as a representative of the Austrian landed gentry whose Protestant faith forced him into an undesired exile. Critics have been less than generous in evaluating his literary contributions; at the end of the seventeenth century Erdmann Neumeister wrote that "one can recognize without difficulty how inappropriate Hohberg's poetic style is to the heroic epic," and in a late-nineteenth-century appraisal Johann Willibald Nagl asserts that Hohberg's poetry is "just as unenjoyable now as most products of German Renaissance poetry." Recent critics have viewed him a representative of the exiled Protestant literati, a dying breed of small landowning Austrians, or placed his poetry in the context of the development of the early novel. Nonetheless, Hohberg was as versatile as he was accomplished, and...