The Penguin book of German verse
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The Penguin book of German verse
（The Penguin poets）
Penguin, c1959
[rev. ed.]
Available at 20 libraries
Note
"with plain prose translations of each poem"
"Reprinted with revisions 1959"--t.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection moves from medieval lyrics and ballads to the Protestant hymns of the 16th century, to the great explosion of German literature with Goethe and Schiller, taking in the isolated genius of Hoelderin, and then on to late 19th-century naturalism, the post-World War I expressionists, and several notable poets in this century, including Loerke and Bertolt Brecht. Demonstrating the unusual and exciting way German poetry has evolved, this volume of poems illustrates how, at times, traditions seem to have been lost and then re-created, while many of the poets included here - Weckherlin, Opitz, Klopstock, Goethe, Hoelderin, Rilke, Trakl - seem to start afresh in a way no English poet has done since Chaucer.
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