Andreas Gryphius: Rooted in Darkness. The Paradoxes of Faith and The Phoenix Vision

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, Saint Mary's University, language: English, abstract: An essay with translations and an evaluative commentary on Andreas Gryphius (Andreas Greif) offering an English perspective on Gryphius as the major Baroque poet of the Thirty Years War in Europe emphasizing common Anglo- German traditions in the Netherlands of that period and proposing Greif's religious poetry as a touchstone for the age.

The Judd School; Cambridge University (Downing College) MA; Kent University (Canterbury) Ph.D. After working in the UK, some years in Nova Scotia Canada and decades in Swabia in Germany. After a decade or more in the UK returned to Germany again. Formerly professor of English. Latterly public service. College teaching UK ( Philosophy and Literature) Currently private research: European Union, (Remainer), Relations with the United Kingdom; Literature: Areas D. H. Lawrence, F. Nietzsche; 17th Century Literature,Philosophy, Life and Thought. Emphases: Montaigne; ,John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Andreas Gryphius(Greif)