German poetry : a guide to free appreciation

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German poetry : a guide to free appreciation

Ronald Gray

Cambridge University Press, 1976

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Rev. ed. of An introduction to German poetry, published in 1965

Bibliography: p. 133

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Dr Gray aims to encourage in students beginning to read and write about German poetry the skills which will help them to read and write with more insight. After outlining this aim in its introduction, this 1976 book takes the form of a selection of German poems from Luther to Brecht, carefully grouped for purposes of comparison, and with graded questions. Most of the poems are from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but there are also translations from and into German for comparison with the originals, groups of poems on common themes, and different versions of the same poem. It is possible to trace in outline some of the main historical trends of German poetry, and to acquire basic technical knowledge within the book, but its main aim is to guide the reader towards a closer feeling for the words on the page.

Table of Contents

  • Preface to the revised edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • On using this book
  • Part I: German and English
  • Part II: Variants
  • Part III. Themes: 1. Evening
  • 2. The moon and stars
  • 3. the city
  • 4. Men and women in love
  • 5. Religious poems
  • Part IV: Trends
  • Part V. For Free Comment: 1. German and English
  • 2. Luther's German
  • 3. The conquest of the air
  • 4. The city
  • 5. Birds
  • 6. The seashore
  • 7. The spinners
  • 8. Peace and quiet
  • 9. Memento mori
  • 10. God in the world
  • Metre, form, and rhythm
  • Glossary
  • Chronological list of German poets in this volume
  • Index
  • Further reading.

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