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The "Sylvarum libri VII", the "Seven Forests Books" by Jakob Balde (1643), the most famous Latin poet of the Bavarian Baroque, contain a wealth of secular and spiritual poems, partly in the guise of idyllic shepherd poetry. The first book "De venatione" is dedicated exclusively to hunting. In the third book Balde criticizes the time by lamenting the addiction to pleasure, a-la-mode creatures as well as the moral decline of his compatriots. With the term "Sylven", Martin Opitz introduced a generic term for the occasional poetry defined by content into his book by the German Poeterey (1624), which based on the silvae by the Roman poet Statius, contained as many worldly and spiritual poems as a forest has trees. The term "Poetische Wälder" (poetic forests) becomes an accepted concept and was used in the composition of Baroque poetry books but also as a term for entire collections of poems. Datum: 2016
Author
Peter Czoik