Andreas Gryphius | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 19 pages of analysis & critique of Andreas Gryphius.

Andreas Gryphius | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 19 pages of analysis & critique of Andreas Gryphius.
This section contains 4,170 words
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SOURCE: Powell, Hugh. “Observations on the Erudition of Andreas Gryphius.” Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies 25, nos. 1 and 2 (1970): 115-25.

In the following essay, Powell considers Gryphius's creative writings, orations, and explanatory notes, finding evidence of the author's strong classical background and store of renaissance learning.

One of the best known memorial poems of seventeenth-century Germany is that which Lohenstein composed on the death of Andreas Gryphius.1 It consists of forty stanzas, each of six lines. The twenty-second stanza runs thus:

Ein Blatt aus seiner Schrifft wird weisen Lehrern weisen: Daß / was er neues schrieb / doch auf die Alten zielt. Auch Fremde nehmen wahr aus Schrifften seine Reisen / Und daß sein Deutscher Mund mit Franckreichs Zunge spielt. Daß Welschlands Schreibens=Art / die Römischen Geschichte / Die Weißheit Griechenlands beblümen sein Gedichte. 

The direct evidence of the poet's learning is to be found in his imaginative work...

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