How did Baroque culture influence Czech popular poetry and religious writing?

During the Baroque period, which followed the suppression of Protestantism in Bohemia after 1620, the cultural landscape underwent significant changes that impacted Czech literary expression.12

While the Counter-Reformation led to a decline in the social and administrative use of the Czech language, the Baroque era provided fresh impulses that influenced both Roman Catholic and non-Catholic writers. This period fostered new developments in popular poetry and left a distinct mark on religious writing, as the aesthetic and thematic characteristics of the Baroque style permeated the literary output of the time.2

Although the era was marked by the proscription of many earlier literary traditions, these Baroque influences helped sustain a level of creative activity that persisted until the eventual resuscitation of Czech literature during the 19th-century national revival.12