German Poetry
An Anthology from Klopstock to Enzensberger

Martin Swales (Edited by)

9780521312646, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 February 1987

228 pages
21.7 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.324 kg

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, Hölderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Droste–Hülshoff, Mörike, 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.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Friedrich Klopstock
2. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
3. Friedrich Schiller
4. Friedrich Hölderlin
5. Novalis
6. Clemens Brentano
Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff
7. Heinrich Heine
8. Annette Von Droste–Hülshoff
9. Eduard Mörike
10. Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
11. Rainer Maria Rilke
12. Georg Trakl
13. Gottfried Benn
14. Bertolt Brecht
15. Paul Celan
16. Hans Magnus Enzenberger
Notes on the poems
Select bibliography.

Subject Areas: Poetry [DC]