The study points up the specific diversity of German baroque literature. Alongside a general overview of this characteristic, it also provides an analysis of specific forms of latitude available in the genres epigram and sonnet. Further, it indicates different kinds of license afforded by baroque poetologies despite their otherwise highly restrictive nature. Processes of literary diversification encouraged certain freedoms in the practice of literature over and against the poetological limitations imposed. To what extent did this contribute to the decline of the baroque poetological paradigm around 1730?