This is a critical edition, with translation and commentary, of part of the cycle of elegies entitled »Urania Victrix« (1663), the important late poetic work of Jacob Baldes, Germany's most internationally renowned Jesuit poet. The work is not only a challenging example of edificatory literature faithfully reflecting the conflicts of the age, but also a compendium of Baroque knowledge culture, in which the five senses of the human body each enlarge upon their own experience of the modern world.

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Wilhelm Kühlmann, geb. 1946, seit 1987 Prof. für Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Heidelberg. Mitglied der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Zahlreiche Publikationen zur deutschen Literatur des 16. bis 20. Jahrhunderts.