| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: German Literature (12353 words) |
 | Literature as an art suffered by being pressed into the service of religious controversy; it became polemic or didactic, and its prevailing form was prose. |
| Its effect on the German language was enormous; the dialect in which it is written, a Middle German dialect used in the chancery of Upper Saxony, became gradually the norm for both Protestant and Catholic writers, and is thus the basis of the modern literary German. |
| Literature was devoid of originality and substance; the formal side absorbed the chief attention of the writers. |
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