Wich-Schwarz (English and humanities, Maryville U., St. Louis) explores the crisis of language and religion by looking at German lyric poet Rilke (1875-1926), saying that he was deeply involved in a d
This handbook compiled by leading experts provides information about the current state of research on Wolfram von Eschenbach and his works (songs, Parzival, Titurel, Willehalm). Considerable attention
The highpoint of German Expressionism in the second decade of the 20th century coincided with a rapid increase in the availability of cocaine as the drug was stockpiled for medical purposes by armies
Connecting to your inner life through the transformative poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.In the Company of Rilke is a rare book about a rare poet. Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century wr
As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing proto-punk poet and artist, the BaronessElsa von Freytag-Loringhoven left in her wake a ripple that is becoming a rip--one hundred yearsafter she exploded
Vowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art,
This book examines the poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs. It shifts established patterns of reception by analysing the author’s reception in East and West Germany after the war and th
From a team of luminaries comes this collection of truly delightful verse for the littlest listeners.Translated from the original works of beloved Danish poet Halfdan Rasmussen, this delightful collec
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by Mark Terrill. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's radical poetics was unique in postwar German literature. His strong affiliation with the New American Poe
Between 1730 and 1770 the philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock described in their writings the characteristic features of literary texts using examples o
Crisis presents chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and
The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) - an innovative and resonant tragedian and an important poet, essayist, historian, and aesthetic theorist - are among the best known of German and world lit
Rilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the great twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, he cons
This book, translated by acclaimed translator Harman, compiles the letters of Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Kappus from 1903 to 1908. In 1902 Kappus, a young writer in need of advice, had requested corr
this study represents the first fundamental work on the literary scholar Max Kommerell (1902?1944), a representative of intellectual life in Germany. Due to his contacts to the Stefan George circle an
A native of Prague, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was relatively unknown during his lifetime but has since come to be regarded as a master of verse. This career-spanning selection features his best w
Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg Buchner Prize for literature, The Meridian is arguably the most import
"Surely, this correspondence gives us a more intimate understanding of Celan than we have without it. Further, the correspondence introduces Shmueli, an important writer, to English readers for the fi
