1st Edition
Transplantings Essays on Great German Poets with Translations
Edited By Peter Viereck
Copyright 2009
247 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. The task of Transplantings is to add flesh and bones to that familiar quip. Indeed, Daniel Weissbort notes that Viereck's study represented a sixty-five year long project. Now, it is finally being brought to print in its... Read more
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
Biography
Peter Viereck
