LX | Benjamin Neukirch
A trenchant satirist and the father of German literary criticism (1665-1729). He was by birth a Silesian and in his early years an admirer of Hofmannswaldau and Lohenstein. Later he turned against them and against the whole tribe of insincere occasional rimesters, who were bringing the poetic art into contempt. His lyric poems are of small account, but his satires are vigorous and illuminative. The text follows Fulda’s edition in Kürschner’s Nationalliteratur, Vol. 39.