1st Edition

The German Poets of the First World War

By Patrick Bridgwater Copyright 1985
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1985, this book provides a full survey of the best and most significant work of German writers to the First World War. Including (in both German and English) the texts of all the main poems discussed, this book contains many not readily available elsewhere. Authors discussed include Trakl, Rile and George as well as less familiar names . The book not only corrects the... Read more
1. The Aesthetics of War 2. Georg Trakl 3. August Stramm 4. Lichtenstein, Ball and Klemm 5. Anton Schnack 6. Lersch, Bröger and Engelke 7. Epilogue. Translations of German Quotations. Bibliography. Index of Poems.

Biography

Patrick Bridgwater was Professor of German at the University of Durham.