A biographical poetic triptych explores the lives of medieval German painter Matthias Grunewald, eighteenth-century explorer and naturalist Georg Stellar, and Sebald himself, as he describes his own haunting odyssey through twentieth-century Germany.

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Comments by contemporaries depict the composer's music and personality and accompany selections from his letters to friends and other artists

Product Description: Michael Hamburger’s fifth collection since the publication of Collected Poems 1941-1994 gathers his poems written during 2004-2006, a productive period in which he has set aside translation work to concentrate on his own poetry...read more

Solitude, exile, dreams, nature, love, war, death, patriotism, freedom, and the past form the themes of this selection of poetry

Product Description: Since 1941 Michael Hamburger has created a distinctive body of work. Collected Poems 1941-1994 reflects more than half a century's dedication to poetry and a consistent engagement with both the natural and the human world. Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924, and came to Britain as a child...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: RAINER MARIA RILKE: DANCE THE ORANGE: SELECTED POEMS Translated by Michael Hamburger and edited by Jeremy Mark Robinson This edition has been revised and updated. Includes illustrations, an introduction and bibliography. Includes the German text facing the English translation...read more

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Product Description: This volume presents the four plays and the narrative poem that, along with Faust, established Goethe as one of the masters of European verse drama and epic. These works in particular display a balance between poetic form and ethical sensibility that characterizes much of Goethe's work during the era of Weimar Classicism...read more

Contents: Poems and Verse Plays; Plays and Libretti; Hofmannsthal's Debt to the English-speaking World Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: Michael Hamburger's new collection gathers his shorter poems written since his "Collected Poems" of 1994. His strong and sinuous poems are alert to the intersections of past and present, of continuity and change. His searching form of nature poetry is informed, as Iain Galbraith put it in "PN Review", by 'a language whose philosophical and metaphysical scope is unique in contemporary British poetry'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Georg Büchner: Lenz / Der hessische Landbote Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Lenz: Entstanden 1835. Erstdruck in: Telegraph für Deutschland (Hamburg), Nr. 5-14, 1839. Der hessische Landbote: Erstdruck: Darmstadt [recte Offenbach], Juli 1834, [2. veränderte Aufl.] Darmstadt [recte Marburg] November 1834. Kursiv wiedergegebene Textpassagen stammen von Friedrich Ludwig Weidig. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Georg Büchner: Werke und Briefe. Neue, durchgesehene Ausgabe. Herausgegeben von Fritz Bergemann, 13. Auflage, Frankfurt a.M.: Insel, 1979. Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Georg Büchner, Porträtzeichnung von Adolf Hoffmann Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 10 pt.

A bilingual volume of the author's selected poems from the last four decades follows such topics as a lamentation over the ruins of Berlin, two bitten apples who recall Paradise, and a prophetic glove at the beach.

Product Description: At the end of the Second World War, Gunter Eich was one of the hundreds of thousands of German soldiers taken prisoner. For twelve years the German language had been in the service of the Nazis, the instrument of their propaganda...read more