Friedrich Spee and Virgil's Fourth Georgic
1972; Duke University Press; Volume: 24; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1769964
ISSN1945-8517
Autores Resumoi' |U SE' LO mio maestro e '1 mio autore, says Dante to Virgil in the opening Canto of the Divina Commedia (v. 85). In saying this, Dante, besides speaking for himself, could well be speaking on behalf of Europe as a whole. For many centuries Europe went to school to Virgil; yet the extent of Virgil's impact is not fully known, particularly where German literature is concerned.2 Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (1591-1635) lived in the early seventeenth century, when the foundations of modern German literature were being laid by the so-called Silesian School. Spee, a Jesuit and a Rhinelander, was not a member of the group. His position as an outsider was reinforced by the fact that the romantics, and many critics since, have interpreted his poetic collection, Trutznachtigall, almost as a predecessor of the romantic movement. In it they found an apparent combination of Gott und Natur expressed in a style similar to that of the folk songs and contrasting sharply with the poetry of the Silesian School, which imitated the classics of Rome and Greece. The first critic to
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