This volume presents 196 poems, letters, and drafts dating from the final 21 months of Günther’s life. During this time, Günther wrote new derisive verses, panegyrics, and wedding verses; spiritual poems for a devotional setting; and his well-known self-justification letter to his father. Despite illness and exhaustion, Günther was able to maintain his poetic sensibility, his role as learned poet, and his clever wit.
< TRONG>Reiner Bölhoff, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany.
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