Classical Rhetoric and the German Poet
1620 to the Present
A Study of Opitz, Bürger and Eichendorff

Anna Carrdus

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1 January 1997  •  276pp

ISBN: 1-900755-02-5 (paperback)  •  RRP £75, $99, €85

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This study relates theory to the details of poetic practice. It presents Opitz, Bürger and Eichendorff as representatives of their times and demonstrates how they adapt the classical art of rhetoric to their particular talents and beliefs. All three poets are shown at work within a tradition flexible enough to persist even into the present. The influence of rhetoric on German poetry did not vanish in the mid-eighteenth century, as is widely supposed.

Anna Carrdus is Lecturer in German at Exeter College, Oxford, and Visiting Research Fellow in the German Department at King's College, London. Her current research into rhetoric and poetry examines the traditions of literary consolation and a circle of women writers in the late Baroque. She has published on Goethe and on consolatory writings by both men and women.

Reviews:

  • ‘The tone is confident, the style lucid. Within a few pages the reader senses how purposeful the exposition is, and how well thought out. But what makes Anna Carrdus's performance so assured is her obvious commitment to poetry itself... It concludes with a wish that may sound audacious, yet which the undertaking wholly justifies: 'My findings will, I hope, open up an opportunity for scholarship to revise current perceptions of the history of German poetry.' She has already revised them herself, single-handed.’ — Peter Skrine, Modern Language Review 94.1, 1999, 243-5 (full text online)
  • ‘Die Analysen sind treffich, und die Er≥rterungen zum literarhistorischen und poetologischen Kontext zeugen von groôer Kennerschaft.’ — Joachim Knape, Germanistik 41.2, 2000, 419

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Carrdus, Anna, Classical Rhetoric and the German Poet: 1620 to the Present (Legenda, 1997)

First footnote reference: 35 Anna Carrdus, Classical Rhetoric and the German Poet: 1620 to the Present (Legenda, 1997), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Carrdus, p. 47.

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Carrdus, Anna. 1997. Classical Rhetoric and the German Poet: 1620 to the Present (Legenda)

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