Twentieth-Century German Poetry An Anthology

Name: Twentieth-Century German Poetry An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780374530938

ISBN-10: 0374530939

ISBN-13: 9780374530938

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Authors: Michael Hofmann

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This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, and endlessly interesting collection. Here we find poetry as a living counter-force to socio-political reality; poetry of dissent and fear and protest; poetry of private griefs and musics. From the subtlety and elegance of Brecht, to the extraordinary jargon-glooms of Gottfried Benn, to the oblique and straightforward responses to the country's villainous history, to the bitter, cleansed, and haunted poetry of the postwar years, the anthology ends…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Michael Hofmann won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Roth's The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth.



Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)


Night Song of the Fish


Introduction


Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945)


George Grosz


George Grosz


Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)


Herbsttag


Autumn Day


Spanische Tanzerin


The Spanish Dancer


Blaue Hortensie


Blue Hydrangea


Vor dem Sommerregen


Before Summer Rain


Orpheus


Eurydike


Hermes


Orpheus


Eurydice


Hermes


Der Konig von Munster


The King of Munster


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