Walter Arnold Kaufmann: Twenty-Five German Poets, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Twenty-Five German Poets
- A Bilingual Collection
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Herausgeber:
- Walter Kaufmann
- Verlag:
- W. W. Norton & Company, 09/1976
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393007718
- Artikelnummer:
- 10767773
- Umfang:
- 348 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 419 g
- Maße:
- 203 x 127 mm
- Stärke:
- 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 1.9.1976
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The book spans three centuries-opening with Angelus Silesius, Klopstock, Claudius, Goethe, and Schiller, and ending with Brecht and Böll-but it has considerable continuity. The prefaces for each of the twenty-five poets integrate the selections into a story, and often poems by different writers invite comparison. For example, almost all of the poets express an attitude toward death. Not only would many discussions of death be better if the authors had some inkling of the great variety of attitudes illustrated here, but one can also gain a better understanding of a poet's experience of life by comparing his attitude toward death with that of some other poets. The book should contribute to a better understanding of some of these twenty-five poets, of German literature, of intellectual history, and of some of the themes with which these poets deal.
The sequence of the poets, and the poems of each poet, is roughly chronological. Walter Kaufmann has made all the translations and have endeavored to capture the distinctive tone of each of the poets. The original German texts are printed on facing pages.
Biografie (Walter Kaufmann)
Geboren 1924 im Berliner Scheunenviertel, wuchs in Duisburg auf und emigrierte 1939 über England nach Australien, wo er bis 1956 lebte. 1956 siedelte er über Warschau in die DDR über. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen.§Auswahl der Preise: Mary Gilmore Award, Australien 1959, Heinrich-Mann-Preis, 1967, Literaturpreis Ruhrgebiet, 1993.