The Latin Verse of Martin Luther - Springer, Carl P E
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"As this book demonstrates, Luther's Latin verses are valuable cultural products that amply reward scholarly reconsideration. Springer's volume is the first to provide English translations of all of them. It also includes extensive introductions and line-by-line annotations for each of the poems, situating them within their literary traditions and contemporary contexts. As such, it should help readers to see that far from being a reformer who more or less repudiated the Classics, or someone who merely dabbled in them, Luther was a confident, even bold, Latin poet, who was serious about working…mehr

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"As this book demonstrates, Luther's Latin verses are valuable cultural products that amply reward scholarly reconsideration. Springer's volume is the first to provide English translations of all of them. It also includes extensive introductions and line-by-line annotations for each of the poems, situating them within their literary traditions and contemporary contexts. As such, it should help readers to see that far from being a reformer who more or less repudiated the Classics, or someone who merely dabbled in them, Luther was a confident, even bold, Latin poet, who was serious about working out his own distinctive synthesis between Christianity and the language and literature of the ancient Romans"--
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Autorenporträt
Carl P. E. Springer is SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA. He is author of Luther's Rome/Rome's Luther (2021), Cicero in Heaven (2017) and Luther's Aesop (2011).