Note 269 — Chapter III · THE TWO ELEMENTS IN POETRY

Unterricht von der teutschen Sprache und Poesie, deren Ursprung, Fortgang und Lehrsätzen, Kiel, 1682. This book has been called the first attempt at a history of German, and, indeed, of collective European, poetry. Morhof gives a historic account of rime, compares German verse with verse of other nations, and is the first writer in Germany to name Shakspere.