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Title: Collected Poems
Condition: New
EAN: 9780857427069
ISBN: 9780857427069
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 15/09/2019
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 127mm
Author: Georg Trakl
Translator: James Reidel
Contributor: James Reidel (Translated by)
Language: English
Description: The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously wrote that while he did not truly understand Trakl’s poems, they had the tone of a “truly ingenious person,” which pleased him. This difficulty in understanding Trakl’s poems is not unique. Since the first publication of his work in 1913, there has been endless discussion about how the verses should be understood, leading to controversies over the most accurate way to translate them.In a refreshing contrast to previous translated collections of Trakl’s work, James Reidel is mindful of how the poet himself wished to be read, emphasizing the order and content of the verses to achieve a musical effect. Trakl’s verses were also marked by allegiance to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a fact which Reidel honors with impressive research into the historicity of the poet’s language.Collected Poems gathers Trakl’s early, middle, and late work, ranging widely, from his haunting prose pieces to his darkly beautiful poems documenting the first bloody weeks of World War I on the Eastern Front.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Series: German List
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Year: 2019

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