基本説明
Der Doppelband eröffnet die Edition des Manuskriptnachlasses eines der zu Lebzeiten angesehensten und einflussreichsten deutschen Autoren des 17. Jhs. Bd. 1/I enthält die erste der fünf Lyriksammlungen Birkens, von 1642 bis 1681 entstandene Liebes- und Freundschaftsgedichte.
Description
This double volume opens the edition of the posthumous manuscripts of one of the most respected and influential 17th century German authors in his life-time. Vol. 1/I contains the first of Birken's five collections of lyric poetry, the poems of love and friendship composed between 1642 and 1681 - epic poems, songs, sonnets and epigrams covering a wide range of topics and forms, at one and the same time indebted to tradition yet surprisingly modern. They afford multi-faceted insights into the reality of the life in which they were created. Vol. 1/II provides textual variants, printing history, details of the situation in which the poems were written, factual explanations and an index.
Klaus Garber, Universität Osnabrück; Hartmut Laufhütte und Ralf Schuster, Universität Passau.
"These Volumes [Vol. 1 and Vol. 5] add much to our knowledge of the position and function of poetry in the seventeenth century, and this will undoubtedly be supplemented in future volumes in the series."
John Roger Paas in: Sixteenth Century Journal XLII/2 (2011)
