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German Poetry: An Anthology from Klopstock to Enzensberger

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title German Poetry: An Anthology from Klopstock to Enzensberger
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Martin Swales
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:228
Dimensions(mm): Height 217,Width 140
Category/GenrePoetry
ISBN/Barcode 9780521312646
ClassificationsDewey:831.008
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 27 February 1987
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This anthology of German poetry prints a representative section from the work of seventeen poets writing from the mid eighteenth century to the present. There are poems by Klopstock, Goethe, Schiller, Hoelderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Droste-Hulshoff, Moerike, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Trakl, Benn, Brecht, Celan, and Enzensberger. The aim of the volume is to dispel whatever fears students may have about reading German poetry by suggesting that lyric poetry offers the most economical and enjoyable way of comprehending the range and variety of German literature over the past two hundred years. In his introduction Professor Swales discusses the nature of lyric poetry in general and then presents a brief historical survey of the themes and modes of German lyric poetry in this period. Notes are provided on individual poems, not with the aim of offering definitive interpretations, but in order to highlight points of theme and style and to facilitate class discussion.