Legacy
His mystical poems, which include the collection Der Kühlpsalter (1684–6), influenced poetry of the late Baroque, and also influenced the movements of Pietism and Empfindsamkeit / Sensibility (1750s-1770s). In 1962, Robert L. Beare wrote that "in recent years Quirinus Kuhlmann has been the subject of much interest, not merely because he is one of the most striking of German Baroque writers, but also because his life has unusual features not always associated with poets – seldom is a poet burned alive, no matter how critics may roast his work!"
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