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This dissertation focuses on the manifold afterlives of Greek antiquity in the German-language poetry and poetics during the era of Weimar Classicism (1788-1805). I approach this thematic complex through the study of prosody situated at the confluence of poetry, philology, and p…

Scholars have recognized the significance of typology for the classification of biblical poetry and the development of measurable indicators for doing so. Yet no one has systematically classified biblical poetry with these indicators. The aim of the current study is to demonstra…

This dissertation examines the metrical experiments of the Romantic poets, William Blake, Charlotte Smith, and John Clare, arguing that these poets saw meter and rhythm not merely as poetic operations but as agents of revelation, markers of linguistic evolution, and confirmation…