Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen

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Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen

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In Johann Christoph Gottsched
…his most important theoretical work, Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen (“Essay on a German Critical Poetic Theory”), the first German treatise on the art of poetry to apply the standards of reason and good taste advocated by Nicolas Boileau, the foremost exponent of classicism in France.
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In German literature: Early Enlightenment
…a professor at Leipzig whose Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen (1730; “Essay on a German Critical Poetic Theory”) provided examples for German writers to follow. Gottsched’s principal criterion for the production and reception of literature was reason. Basing his precepts on a literal interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics, he…
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