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Baroque literature - Weise, Christian. Der Grünenden Jugend nothwendige Gedancken, denen uberflüßigen Gedancken entgegen gesetzt und zu gebührender Nachfolge, so wol in gebundenen als ungebundenen Reden allen curiösen Gemüthern recommendirt. With copper title. Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1684. 7 p., 304 p., pp. 305-686. 17 x 10 cm. Contemporary vellum binding over wooden boards with handwritten spine title (somewhat stained, edges and spine cover partially detached). Second edition, first published in 1675. - Dünnhaupt 30, 2 - Goedeke III, 279, 5b. - "With this work, which is significant in many respects, Weise wanted to soften the apparently not universally favorable impression that his first opus, the Superfluous Thoughts of the Greening Youth of 1668 ... had made. ... The first part of this book (pp. 1-304) contains the lyrical poems written since around 1668 during Weise's time in Leipzig and above all in Weißenfels, mostly occasional poems about people, weddings, birthdays, funerals, etc. Some of them are libretti. Some of them are intended as libretti for musical compositions ... The second part (pp. 305-433) contains a poetics in prose with numerous examples of poems (from Weise's pen), in which Weise develops his thoughts on the art of verse and rhyme, rhetoric, the use of words and foreign words in lyrical poetry." (Seebass I, 1807). - Partly browned, first few leaves with surrounding tidemark, copperplate and printed title loose, the former somewhat trimmed at the sides and bottom, one sheet with crease at the foot. VAT: *
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Baroque literature - Weise, Christian. Der Grünenden Jugend nothwendige Gedancken, denen uberflüßigen Gedancken entgegen gesetzt und zu gebührender Nachfolge, so wol in gebundenen als ungebundenen Reden allen curiösen Gemüthern recommendirt. With copper title. Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1684. 7 p., 304 p., pp. 305-686. 17 x 10 cm. Contemporary vellum binding over wooden boards with handwritten spine title (somewhat stained, edges and spine cover partially detached). Second edition, first published in 1675. - Dünnhaupt 30, 2 - Goedeke III, 279, 5b. - "With this work, which is significant in many respects, Weise wanted to soften the apparently not universally favorable impression that his first opus, the Superfluous Thoughts of the Greening Youth of 1668 ... had made. ... The first part of this book (pp. 1-304) contains the lyrical poems written since around 1668 during Weise's time in Leipzig and above all in Weißenfels, mostly occasional poems about people, weddings, birthdays, funerals, etc. Some of them are libretti. Some of them are intended as libretti for musical compositions ... The second part (pp. 305-433) contains a poetics in prose with numerous examples of poems (from Weise's pen), in which Weise develops his thoughts on the art of verse and rhyme, rhetoric, the use of words and foreign words in lyrical poetry." (Seebass I, 1807). - Partly browned, first few leaves with surrounding tidemark, copperplate and printed title loose, the former somewhat trimmed at the sides and bottom, one sheet with crease at the foot. VAT: *
