Description: The first book in English to provide texts and translations of all of Martin Luther's neo-Latin poetry and a line-by-line commentary for each poem.
Brief description: Carl P. E. Springer is SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA. He is author of Luther's Rome/Rome's Luther (2021), Cicero in Heaven (2017) and Luther's Aesop (2011).
Review Quotes: "Carl Springer has made accessible to scholars and others interested in Luther and the classical tradition significant texts for understanding him as a scholar, poet and human being. The best poems are as successful examples of their genres as his best chorales and deserve similar respect and scholarly attention." --International Journal of the Classical Tradition