ABSTRACT
Wernicke (1661-1725) was a German poet who served in Paris as Danish envoy. A devotion to French literature prompted him to attack the poetic style of the school represented by von Hofmannswaldau and to oppose the ideals of that school. The extract given below specifically contradicts von Hofmannswaldau's account of the most noted English poets (see No. 43, 1679). (Allf die Schlesische PoetelJ, 1697. Given in G. Waterhouse, The Literary RelatiolJs cifE/lgland and Germany in the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge, 1914, p. 119).
