 | Spring Awakening
Publication Date: February 15, 1996This version of Frank Wedekind's extraordinary play Spring Awakening was specially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The themes it addresses and the sheer energy of the writing make this masterpiece of German symbolism startlingly relevant today.With its scenes of pubescent angst, sexual outspokenness, rape and homosexuality, the play still, more than one hundred years after it was first staged, has the power to shock. Ted Hughes's rendition lends the dialogue a particularly modern terseness and bite, drawing out all the erotic energy of the or...
 |  | Heiligenanstalt (Dichten 1)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| Series: Dichten 1 poetry, Austria, tr Rosmarie Waldrop...
|  | Christian Morgenstern's Galgenlieder (The Gallows Songs), Bilingual edition (English and German Edition)
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|  | Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain
Publication Date: February 9, 2006| ISBN-10: 0708313868 | ISBN-13: 978-0708313862| Edition: 3rdRachel Bromwich’s magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This substantially revised edition shows the author’s continued mastery of the subject, and will be essential reading for Celticists and for those interested in early British history and literature and in Arthurian studies. Early Welsh literature shows a predilection for classifying names, facts and precepts into triple groups, or triads. ‘The Triads of the...
|  | The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems of Herman De Coninck
Publication Date: October 3, 2006Herman de Coninck, Belgium's leading poet for many decades, appears inEnglish in a single volume for the first time. Witty, tender, trenchant, wise, de Coninck's poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful observations about human experience. Bosselaar and Brown, both fine poets in their own right, are skillful translators. . ...
|  | Hrafnagaldur
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|  | Songs for a Spiritual Traveler: Selected Poems (The Writings of Frithjof Schuon)
Publication Date: September 6, 2003| Series: The Writings of Frithjof Schuon German/English bilingual collection - drawn from more than 3,000 poems written during the closing years of Schuon's life. ...
|  | GERMAN ROMANTIC POETRY: GOETHE, NOVALIS, HEINE, H
Publication Date: November 1, 2010GERMAN ROMANTIC POETRY A study of German Romantic poetry, focusing on the poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine and Novalis. Includes lengthy extracts from their poetry. EXTRACT FROM THE FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN CHAPTER Friedrich Hölderlin believed in the notion of the poet as shaman, a vates, a prophet. As he wrote in 'An die Deutschen' ('To the Germans'), 'sweet it is to divine, but an affliction too'. And he believed in his poetic world, as poets have to: 'Hölderlin's world was one in which he alone bel...
|  | Poet of Expressionist Berlin: The Life and Work of Georg Heym
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|  | Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of "Birthday Letters"
Publication Date: April 3, 2000A study of Ted Hughes's poetry collection, "Birthday Letters". Divided into ten sections, the book discusses groups of poems as well as giving a biographical framework to the whole sequence. It also offers an explanation of the connections between Hughes's work and that of Sylvia Plath. ...
|  | The Art of Recognition in Wolfram's 'Parzival'
Publication Date: October 6, 2005Although much work has recently been done on the relationship between poet, narrator and audience in medieval literature, no sustained attempt has yet been made to inquire into the ways in which the listener's responses are rhetorically controlled and guided in the case of the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach. This book attempts such an inquiry by combining five approaches which have so far been used only separately or partially: the narrator's use of a point of view technique, a specific problem concerning the medieval technique, a specific problem concern...
|  | Parzival (de Gruyter Texte) (German Edition)
Publication Date: October 28, 2003| ISBN-10: 3110178591 | ISBN-13: 978-3110178593| Edition: 2 The second edition of the 'Parzival' (ca. 1200/1210) continues to offer the authorative text according to Karl Lachmann and the excellent translation of Peter Knecht. ...
|  | Lieb Vaterland Magst Ruhig Sein (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
Publication Date: 1972| Series: Fiction, Poetry & Drama All books are shipped from Austria! ...
|  | Faust, Part One
Publication Date: November 16, 2000Randall Jarrell's translation of Goethe's classic, illustrated with extraordinary new drawings by Peter SisRandall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements.In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook: "Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest"), and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe."His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English.He all but finished the job before he died, and...
|  | Die Feuerzangenbowle (Fiction, Poetry and Drama) (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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| | Poetry of Heinrich Heine
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|  | Blago Bung, Blago Bung, Bosso Fatakal (Anti-Classics of Dada)
Publication Date: November 1995| Series: Anti-Classics of Dada The German contribution to the Dada movement ("DADA MEANS NOTHING!" proclaimed Tristan Tzara) as it unfolded in Zurich during the first World War is not widely known.This collection brings together three texts translated into English for the first time, which were essential for the very creation of the movement, and which influenced all its future developments in France, Germany, the USA and many other countries.Included is the only Dada novel, Tenderenda the Fantast, written by the movement’s founder Hugo Ball. sections of ...
| | Mediocrity and Delusion: Collected Diversions
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| | Reft and Light (Dichten =, No. 4)
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Dichten =, No. 4 Poetry. Fourth in Burning Deck's Dichten = series of current German writing in English translation, REFT AND LIGHT presents a series of exuberant, playful language experiments by the well-known German poet. In an unusual twist, each poem is rendered in multiple English versions by some of America's most daring poets and translators. As editor Rosmarie Waldrop explains, Ernst Jandl's poems are so engrained in the German language that they are impossible to translate... [These] adaptations range from close imitations to freewheeling v...
|  | New Poems: The Other Part
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