Opitz, Martin 1597-1639 creator Braune, Wilhelm 1850-1926 text utu 2011 monographic de 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey" by Martin Opitz is a poetics treatise published in 1624. It stands as the first German-language poetics manual, establishing rules for writing poetry across nearly all lyric genres of the period. Born from Renaissance debates about German cultural legitimacy, Opitz's work defends the German language against charges of barbarism while drawing on both ancient classical traditions and contemporary Romance models. His revolutionary prosodic reforms in Chapter VII made proper versification accessible to anyone with natural German language intuition, profoundly shaping German poetry for generations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buch_von_der_Deutschen_Poeterey Release date is 2011-01-01 Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Poetics -- Early works to 1800 PN Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34806 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34806 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133808.0 34806