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COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association
Triumphdes Dichters: Gekronte Intellektuelleim 16. Jahrhundert. By ALBERT SCHIRRMEISTER Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Bohlau. 2003. viii+319 pp. 34.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-412-09703-9.
Two hundred years since the creation of the last imperial poet laureate in the Holy Roman Empire, this book on their role is welcome indeed. Laureation had a long but largely in glorious history in the Empire. The first imperial poet was laureated in 1355, the last in 1804, and over these four and a half centuries there were, according to my own researches, more than thirteen hundred bearers of the proud title poeta laureatus caesareus, 90 per cent of them now unknown to literary...
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