 | Messer. (German Edition)
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 |  | Mark Und Bein (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | The German Lied and Its Poetry
Publication Date: October 1, 1971Most Lieder composers chose their texts with great care, selecting only the better poems of the most significant poets. They hoped to endow these poems with music tha would enhance the words and thus make the poem more expressive.Since Professor Brody teaches music and Professor Fowkes teaches German the reader id offered a complete examination of Lieder from both an analysis of the musical score and the text of the poetry.The authors examine selected lieder from Mozart through Berg. After a brief summary of the formal contributions of the Minnesingers and Me...
|  | Die Birnen Von Ribbeck (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Onions and Cucumbers and Plums: 46 Yiddish Poem in English
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| | Narratives of Ecstasy: The Romantic Temporality in Modern German Poetry
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|  | Roman Elegies: And Other Poems & Epigrams (Poetica, 29)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Poetica, 29 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is mainly known to the English-speaking world as the author of the poetic drama Faust'. In Europe - as poet, dramatist, novelist, art critic, literary theoretician, travel writer, author of a treatise on light and colour, and prolific correspondent - he is regarded as the supreme Romantic literary figure.This selection is a classic introduction to one of the giants of European literature. It collects all the beautifully crafted versions Michael Hamburger has made over many years from all perio...
|  | Down to My Last Skin (Random poets)
Publication Date: May 22, 2009| Series: Random Poets This is the first collection of Antjie Krog's poetry to appear in English, and it cements her reputation as one of South Africa's greatest poets. Down to My Last Skin is her poetic exploration of her different identities, the layers that make the human condition so intricate, fragile and yet resilient.The collection is divided into seven clear sections which explore layers in Krog's life, and those in every individual.Down to My Last Skin was the inaugural winner of the FNB Vita Poetry Award in 2000. From Down to My Last Skin, p. 80(n) nei...
|  | Oya (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Nelly Sachs, Flight and Metamorphosis: An Illustrated Biography
Publication Date: February 1, 2012This richly illustrated biography is the first book in English to chronicle the life of Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature. The book follows Sachs from her secluded years in Berlin as the only child of assimilated German Jews, through her last-minute flight from the Nazis in 1940, to her exile in "peaceful Sweden"—a time of poverty and isolation, but also of growing fame. Enriched by over 300 images of Sachs's manuscripts, photographs, and possessions, Flight and Metamorphosis not only offers detailed insight...
|  | From My Life: Poetry and Truth (Goethe's Collected Works) in Two Volumes
Publication Date: September 1987This new series brings into modern English a reliable translation of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work. This edition, selected from over 140 volumes in German, is the new standard in English, and contains poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing by the man who is probably the most influential writer in the German language. The executive editors of this collection are Victor Lange of Princeton University, Eric Blackall of Cornell University, and Cyrus Hamlin of Yale University.Princeton Universit...
|  | With Everything We've Got: A Personal Anthology of Yiddish Poetry
Publication Date: February 2, 2009In With Everything We've Got, translator and poet Richard J. Fein introduces English-speaking audiences to some of the most poignant and passionate voices of the twentieth century. This outstanding collection features the work of fifteen acclaimed Yiddish poets, and includes the translator's own poetic responses to their verse, and to the act of translation itself. The poems offer nuanced experiments in form, thoughtful meditations on the fate of the Yiddish language, and reflections on a diverse range of themes and concerns, from the joys and hardships of i...
|  | After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets (Facing Pages)
Publication Date: October 4, 2004| Series: Facing Pages They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II: Rose Ausländer, Elisabeth Langgässer, Nelly Sachs, Gertrud Kolmar, Else Lasker-Schüler, Ingeborg Bachmann, M...
|  | Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's `Lanzelet': Narrative Style and Entertainment (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: December 7, 2000| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 45) Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, written around the turn of the thirteenth century, has long intrigued scholars both within and outside German studies: the only remaining trace of a Lancelot legend free of the adulterous affair with Guinevere, it has been seen both as a precursor of classical Arthurian romance in Germany, and as a post-classical imitation, and attempts to interpret it have often run foul of its contradictions. This new study takes a fresh look at its place in the history of German romance, arguing that...
|  | Shining Brow
Publication Date: February 1993Commissioned by Madison Opera as a libretto for American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Shining Brow can be read as a dramatic poem in its own right. Displaying all the structural ingenuity and subtle resonance that have marked Paul Muldoon as the most influential poet of his generation, it tells, with suitable bravura, the story of architectural genius Frank Lloyd Wright and his catastrophic affair with the wife of a wealthy client. ...
| | Wandering: Notes and Sketches
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|  | Saracens and Conversion: Chivalric Ideals in Aliscans and Wolfram's Willehalm (Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literature)
Publication Date: May 21, 2012| ISBN-10: 3034307810 | ISBN-13: 978-3034307819At the heart of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm are Saracens: instrumental figures in the driving themes of conquest, loyalty, vassalage, chivalry, love-service and redemption that run through the text. When compared with Wolfram's French sources, La Prise d'Orange and Aliscans, Willehalm is revealed to be innovative yet true to the themes and figures of the original chansons de geste, indicating that Wolfram continued the retelling process that also played a part in the composition of his French sources. Thi...
|  | Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet And His Masterpiece
Publication Date: January 30, 2007'Frauenlob' was the stage name of Heinrich von Meissen (c. 1260-1318), a medieval German poet-minstrel. A famous and controversial figure in his day, Frauenlob (meaning "praise of ladies") exercised a strong influence on German literature into the eighteenth century. This book introduces the poet to English-speaking readers with a fresh poetic translation of his masterpiece, the Marienleich--a virtuosic poem of over 500 lines in praise of the Virgin Mary. Barbara Newman, known for her pathbreaking translation of Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia, brill...
|  | Fredy Neptune: A Novel In Verse
Publication Date: February 17, 1999A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize.I never learned the old top ropes,I was always in steam. Less capstan, less climbing,more re-stowing cargo. Which could be hard and slowas farming- but to say Why this is Valparaiso!Or: I'm in Singapore and know my way abouttakes a long time to get stale.-from Book I, "The Middle Sea"When German-Australian sailor Friedrich "Fredy" Boettcher is shanghaied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mob...
| | Der Welsche Gast/ The Italian Guest (Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions)
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