Transplantings: Essays on Great German Poets with Translations

ISBN-13: 9781138517462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 247 str.

Peter Viereck

Opis

On being told that "translation is an impossible thing," Anatole France replied: "precisely, my friend; the recognition of that truth is a necessary preliminary to success in art

Spis treści

1: Background; 1: On Transplanting into New Gardens; 2: Notes on Stefan George and Georg Heym; 2: Stefan George; 3: George Seen by Fellow Germans of the 1930s; 4: Poems by Stefan George: Comments and Contexts; 5: Controversies about George; 6: George vs. Klages-Schuler: Context for Stefan George’s Poems “Nordics,” “Jews and Germans,” and “Templars”; 7: “Norbert”: Context for Hellingrath,Hölderlin, and George’s Disciples; 8: Deciphering “The Stranger”: A Detective Story; 9: The Maximin Series; 10: Poems by Stefan George; 3: Georg Heym; 11: The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym; 12: On Translating a Heym Poem; 13: Heym’s “War”; 14: Heym’s “Prayer”; 15: “Blue” and “Light”: A Heritage from Hölderlin and from Romanticism; 16: Heym’s “Post Mortem”; 17: Seven Poems by Georg Heym; 4: Related Poets; 18: Hofmannsthal, Benn, Hölderlin, and Others; 5: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 19: A Goethe Sampler

O autorze

Peter Viereck