Verstechnik oder Allusion? Antike Vorbilder in der Dichtung von Elisabetha Johanna Westonia

Nagyillés, János (2014) Verstechnik oder Allusion? Antike Vorbilder in der Dichtung von Elisabetha Johanna Westonia. Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 54 (2-3). pp. 167-179. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

Elisabetha Johanna Westonia was a poet with a hard life at the beginning of the 17th century. In the court of Rudolph II, her knowledge and education was recognised by the poet Georg Carolides von Karlsberg or Georg Martin von Baldhoven, who even helped to publish her poems. Her poetry, which has often been compared to the works of Olympia Fulvia Morata, is very complex, and the ancient patterns in her genres are clearly detectable. This study intends to analyse these poetic prototypes, as well as to investigate the question whether they were only crucial as poetic tools, or whether it is possible — when interpreting Westonia’s poems — to consider them as allusions, which may recall the (ancient) original context and are used for the self-reflection of the poet.

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