ABSTRACT
The example of the poetic career of Paul Fleming, just examined, offers an indication of how different areas of the German-speaking lands suddenly come into focus for modern research. The north-eastern German-language cultural area can be regarded as extending from Danzig in the west to Reval in the northeast. Prussia was nominally under the sovereignty of the King of Poland and therefore not part of the Holy Roman Empire ruled from Vienna. The town of Reval is known to literary scholarship because of the stays there between 1635 and 1636, then again in 1639, of Paul Fleming. Plavius's poetry attracted attention from early times, negatively in the work of Sacer and Neumeister, then more variably in verdicts down to Kindermann's edition of 1939 and in the post-war period. Plavius's love for series and lists is an aspect of rhetorical repetition such as can be seen in his love for the device of anaphora.
