Twentieth-century German poetry : an anthology
Title:
Twentieth-century German poetry : an anthology
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edited by Michael Hofmann.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 511 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780374105358
General Note:
Originally published as The Faber Book of 20th-Century German Poems: London : Faber and Faber, 2005.
Abstract:
"This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets of the last century, 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 counterforce to sociopolitical reality; poetry of dissent and fear and protest; poetry of private griefs and music. From the subtlety and elegance of Brecht, to the extraordinary "jargon-glooms" of Gottfried Bonn, to the oblique (and straightforward) responses to the country's villainous history, to the bitter, cleansed, and haunted poetry of the postwar years, this anthology illuminates the full span of twentieth-century German verse, ending with a reunified country looking at itself and its neighbors in new ways. This is an essential and timely collection of poems from a tumultuous, violent, tragic, and hopeful century, written in the language of those who were at the heart of the matter."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-511) and index.
Added Author:
Variant Title:
Portion of title: 20th century German poetry
Contents:
Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) -- Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) -- Paul Klee (1879-1940) -- Ernst Stadler (1883-1914) -- Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) -- Georg Heym (1887-1912) -- Jakob van Hoddis (1887-1942) -- Georg Trakl (1887-1914) -- Hans Arp (1887-1966) -- Kurt Schwitters (1887-1947) -- Franz Werfel (1890-1945) -- Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) -- George Grosz (1893-1959) -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) -- Peter Huchel (1903-1981) -- Günter Eich (1907-1972) -- Ernst Meister (1911-1979) -- Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965) -- Rainer Brambach (1917-1983) -- Paul Celan (1920-1970) -- Friederike Mayröcker (1924- ) -- Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) -- Heinz Piontek (1925-2003) -- Inge Müller (1925-1966) -- Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) -- Oskar Pastior (1927- ) -- Günter Grass (1927- ) -- Hertha Kräftner (1929-1995) -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929- ) -- Adolf Endler (1930- ) -- Jürgen Becker (1932- ) -- Reiner Kunze (1933- ) -- Sarah Kirsch (1935- ) -- Christoph Meckel (1935- ) -- Kurt Bartsch (1937- ) -- Nicolas Born (1937-1979) -- Elke Erb (1938- ) -- Volker Braun (1939- ) -- Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975) -- Karin Kiwus (1942- ) -- Michael Krüger (1943- ) -- Jürgen Theobaldy (1944- ) -- Joachim Sartorius (1946- ) -- Uwe Kolbe (1957- ) -- Durs Grünbein (1962- ) -- Lutz Seiler (1963- ) -- Marcel Beyer (1965- ) -- Volker Sielaff (1966- ) -- Hauke Hückstädt (1969- ) -- Matthias Göritz (1969- ) -- Jan Wagner (1971- ).
Language:
English and German.