The Penguin Book of German Verse - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014058546X ISBN 13: 9780140585469

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 014058546X
• ISBN 13: 9780140585469
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Forster Leonard