Poeta doctus
In philology, a poeta doctus (Latin for learned poet ) is referred to as a poet or writer who assumes knowledge of the literature of his predecessors in his works and refers to it explicitly or unspokenly. The term is only relevant to modern literature. In antiquity all poets (still known today) were learned poets , the Greek because they all referred to the content of Homeric epics , often quoting and varying them verbatim. The poetry of the Romans was also a scholarly poetry, since in its origins it was nothing more than a transformation of Greek poetry into the Latin language.
Background and definition
In the Middle Ages , the stylistic device in the form of comments and sentences and the combination of the two, the sentence commentary, was also widespread. Until the middle of the 18th century, the idea of such a “learned poet” corresponded more to the idea that poetry could be learned and less of one's own inspiration.
In the modern era up to the 19th century, most German poets and writers were learned in the sense that they knew the literature of antiquity and German classicism from their own reading and worked on it in their own works. Modern authors are called poeta doctus when their works are based on particularly detailed studies of classical models, which does not have to be readily apparent to the average reader. For example , August von Platen has been called a poeta doctus because in his poems he faithfully reproduces ancient meter measures down to the original. Also Ingeborg Bachmann or the Portuguese poet Luís Camões were sometimes referred to as poeta doctus referred. The same applies to the poems of Konstantinos Kavafis or, in the present, to some of Durs Grünbein's poems .
literature
- Wilfried Barner : Poeta doctus. About the renaissance of a poet's ideal in 20th century German literature. In: literary studies and intellectual history. Festschrift for Richard Brinkmann . Edited by Jürgen Brummack et al. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-484-10421-X , pp. 725-752.
- Klaus Reichert : learned poets. On the story of an alleged contradiction. In: Scope of the authorial discourse. Edited by Klaus Städtke , Ralph Kray . Akademie, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003737-7 , pp. 39-48 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Weimar (Ed.): Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft . 3., rework. Edition. tape 1 : AG. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1997, ISBN 3-11-010896-8 , pp. 359 (in the Poets section).
- ↑ About Ingeborg Bachmann. 1. Reviews: (1952-1992) . 2., unchanged. Edition. Igel-Verl, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86815-528-0 , p. 219 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ : What do you say, heart? - That I hit for love. In: The time. Retrieved August 21, 2015 .