The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems

by Michael Hofmann
The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems
Author: Michael Hofmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2005
Genre: German poetry
ISBN: 9780571197033
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Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems is an essential new addition to any poetry bookshelf.'Michael Hofmann has a skeptical intelligence, an observant eye, a compulsion to speak the unspeakable, and the useful wariness of the displaced person.' Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books'It is probably impossible to produce poetry of this quality that is tuned more precisely to the timbre of the present than Michael Hofmann's. Rapture is the only adequate response.' Geoff Dyer, Guardian

The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century German Poems

by Michael Hofmann
The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century German Poems
Author: Michael Hofmann
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0571262899
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Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems is an essential new addition to any poetry bookshelf. 'Michael Hofmann has a skeptical intelligence, an observant eye, a compulsion to speak the unspeakable, and the useful wariness of the displaced person.' Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books 'It is probably impossible to produce poetry of this quality that is tuned more precisely to the timbre of the present than Michael Hofmann's. Rapture is the only adequate response.' Geoff Dyer, Guardian

German Verse from the 12th to the 20th Century in English Translation

by J. W. Thomas
German Verse from the 12th to the 20th Century in English Translation
Author: J. W. Thomas
Publisher: University of North Carolina S
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780807880449
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This anthology presents in English verse translation a selection of the best of German poetry, together with discussions of the chief authors and literary periods and brief explications of the individual poems. Taking the reader from the Minnesingers' songs of courtly love to Goethe and Rilke, this volume gives an excellent introduction to eight centuries of German poetry.

A New History of German Literature

by David E. Wellbery
A New History of German Literature
Author: David E. Wellbery
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1038
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780674015036
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'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

German 20th Century Poetry

by Reinhold Grimm
German 20th Century Poetry
Author: Reinhold Grimm
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780826413116
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This collection features a cogent introduction and includes representative poems by some 60 modern poets, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Gottfried Benn, Berthold Brecht, Paul Celan, Gnnter Eich, Gnnter Grass, Georg Heym, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Franz Kafka, Gnnter Kunert, Gertrud Kolmar, Friederike Mayr÷cker, Rainer Maria Rilke, Nelly Sachs, and many others.

Twentieth-Century German Poetry

by Michael Hofmann
Twentieth-Century German Poetry
Author: Michael Hofmann
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-03-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780374530938
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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 with a reunified country looking at itself and its neighbors in new ways. This is an essential and timely collection of verse from a tumultuous, violent, tragic, and hopeful century, written in the language of those who were at the heart of the matter.

Bertolt Brecht

by Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780826415042
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Long in preparation and in considerable demand, here are the essential poems and prose of one of the giants of 20th century world literature. Following an authoritative introduction by Reinhold Grimm, the volume includes German and English poems on facing pages.

Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century

by M. Charlotte Wolf
Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century
Author: M. Charlotte Wolf
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486476324
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"Ideal for students, this affordable anthology features expert new translations of a dozen works previously unavailable in English. The translations appear alongside the original German text of such stories as "Beauty and the Beast" by Irmtraud Morgner, Gabriele Wohmann's "Good Luck and Bad Luck," and tales by other modern authors, including Grunert, Inneberger, and Klockmann"--

German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century

by Elizabeth Rütschi Herrmann
German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century
Author: Elizabeth Rütschi Herrmann
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2014-05-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 148327957X
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German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century is an anthology of German women writers of the twentieth century and includes English translations of their German-language short stories. These short stories provide an insight into their creators' literary achievement and give some impression of the great variety and scope of their work. Comprised of 16 chapters, this volume begins with a short story by Ricarda Huch (1864-1947) entitled "Love," followed by another story entitled "The Wife of Pilate," by Gertrud von Le Fort (1876-1971). The remaining chapters present short stories by Elisabeth Langgässer (1899-1950), Anna Seghers (1900- ), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974), Luise Rinser (1911- ), Ilse Aichinger (1921- ), Barbara König (1925- ), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), Christa Reinig (1926- ), Christa Wolf (1929- ), Gabriele Wohmann (1932- ), Helga Novak (1935- ), Gisela Elsner (1937- ), Elisabeth Meylan (1937- ), and Angelika Mechtel (1943- ). This monograph will be of interest to students, scholars, and authors who wish to know more about German literature in general and the work of German women writers in particular.