Literature Centre’s researchers at the Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature
The first collection of non-occasional poems published in Tallinn – the collection of Joachim Rachel's epigrams "One Hundred Epigrams" published around 1648 – was thought to be lost. But a copy was published in the Austrian National Library a few years ago. The picture shows the title page of the collection and a foreword that says that it was made in "Viitina manor in Livonia, the 13th (mile) stone from the Academia Gustaviana".
The 14th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature, The Factor of Lyrical Poetry in the Formation of Literary Cultures, will take place in Tartu on 1-3 November.
The presentations of Martin Klöker and Kristi Viiding, senior researchers at the Literature Centre, will focus on poetry in the early modern period. Martin Klöker will talk about the place and function of early modern poetry in literary culture. Kristi Viiding will examine the change in Livonian humanist poetry in 1648, brought on by the German satirist Joachim Rachel.
The programme and broadcast links can be found on the conference website HERE.