The meeting at Telgte. [Treffen in Telgte. English]

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981., 1981. Fine. [1st trade edition, 2nd printing] ; 147 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0151585881; 9780151585885 LCCN: 80-8749 ; LC: PT2613.R338; Dewey: 833/.914 ; OCLC: 7177690 ; "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."; sea-green cloth with dark blue spine and gold lettering and designs in brown, green and black pictorial dustjacket ; "In 1647, as the Thirty Years' War was drawing to a close, a group of poets from all parts of Germany gather at the pilgrimage town of Telgte, for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation: its language and literature. They meet and part in disarray, yet manage to discuss their manuscripts with all the liveliness of friendship and force of rivalry, against a background of brutality and anguish." -- dustjacket ; historical characters included are Heinrich Albert, Jakob Balde, Cornelius Becker, Mathias Bernegger, Siegmund von Birken, Georg Blum, Jakob Boehme, August Buchner, Daniel von Czepko und Reigersfeld, Simon Dach, Ludwig Elzevihr (Elsevier), Wol fgang Endter, Alexander Erskein, Paul Fleming, Abraham von Franckenberg, Giovanni Gabrieli, Christoffel Grimmelshausen, Paul Gerhardt, Georg Greflinger, Hugo Gortius, Andreas Gryphius, Giambattista Guarini, Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, Christian Hofma nn von Hofmannswaldau, Johann Klaj, Bernhard Knipperdolling, Johann Lauremberg, Georg Michael Lingelsheim, Ambrosius Lobwasser, Friedrich von Logau, Ludwig Prince of Anhalt-Kothen, Giambasttista Marino, Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Michael Moscherosch , Johann Philipp Mulbe, Johann Naumann, Georg Neumark, Martin Opitz, Ottavio Rinuccini, JOhann Rist, Robert Roberthin, Jesaias Rompler von Lowenhalt, Johann Scheffler, Johann Mathias Scheuber, Justus Georg Schottel, Heinrich Schutz, Friedrich Spee v on Langenfeld, Torquato Tasso, Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, Philipp von Zesen, and Julius Wilhelm Zincgref ; dustjacket spine sunned ; else FINE/VG