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Transcendental Poetry in the Baroque Period: Angelus Silesius’s Religious and Philosophical Epigrams as Reflections About the Self and the Divine

Albrecht Classen

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 84-93 · 10.55121/card.v5i2.656

One of the greatest poets of epigrams, Angelus Silesius, was not only highly famous for his short stanzas written in the latter half of the seventeenth century. He also exerted, both during his lifetime and then during his posterity, and thus until today, a deep influence on poetry, philosophy, and theology. But his epigrams are