The Pursuit of Pegnitz’s Meadows

"The Pursuit of Pegnitz's Meadows" is a work by Johann Klaj and Georg Philipp Harsdörfer. It is a pastoral idyll, modeled after Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Harsdörfer and Klaj were founders of the Pegnesischer Blumenorden, a prominent Baroque literary society in Nuremberg. Harsdörfer was a prolific poet and theorist of the Baroque movement, known for his emphasis on "painting in sound" and his handbook for poets, Poetischer Trichter. Klaj specialized in pastoral poetry and religious oratorios, contributing significantly to Nuremberg's status as a center of German literature in the mid-17th century.12