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"Late" is both an elegy for and a celebration of life in our century as we approach the end of the millennium. In the spirit and style of Michael Hamburger's much-admired "Variations", "Travelling" and "In Suffolk", it is a narrative meditation in a developing series of short passages. In some of his most musical and subtle lyric writing, it draws together the abiding concerns of his poetry: the cycles of the passage of time, the interrelation of past and present, of continuity and change, in both the natural and the social and historical worlds. ... Read more

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Michael Hamburger's fifth collection since the publication of Collected Poems 1941-1994 gathers his poems written during 2004-2006, a productive period in which he has set aside translation work to concentrate on his own poetry. His intimate knowledge of the English landscape and wildlife underpins his meditations on mortality and the passing of time in these subtle and compelling poems. ... Read more

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FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN

Translated by Michael Hamburger and edited by Jeremy Robinson

The German Romantic poet Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) is one of the very greatest poets - of any era. Holderlin's poetry is airy, radiant and incredibly lyrical. This selection features many of his best odes, poems and hymns, from the whole span of his career.

Michael Hamburger is a respected poet and critic. He has translated Rilke, Celan and Goethe, among others, as well the whole of Holderlin's poetry. Hamburger's awards include The Schlegel-Tieck Prize, the Goethe Medal and the European Translation Prize.

'Few can have done more to enhance (and in many cases create) the appreciation of German poetry among an Anglophone audience'

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Poems drawn from six volumes of the work of Germany's most important and influential living poet. ... Read more

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Some of the most powerful poems of the 20th century
I you like poems of the world from the transhuman perspective you must read this. We have here a german Robinson Jeffers.The End of Owls and Strange Attractor are poems worth committing to memory.

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This anthology of German verse in English translation covers a period that includes perhaps two-thirds of the superlative poets of the German language. Here are 147 poems representing 27 poets from Matthias Claudius to Friedrich Nietzsche. The selection is representative, including both the universally known (Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin) and the less familiar (Brentano, Droste-Hulshoff, Holty, Hebbel, Storm). Among the translations are classics by Coleridge, Longfellow, and the Irish poet James Mangan. ... Read more

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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 periods of Goethe's creative life, adding more than twenty new poems to Poems and Epigrams (1983), and including the complete text of Goethe's erotic masterpiece, the 'Roman Elegies'. The critical introduction provides a valuable account of a writer who was, in the words of his translator, 'so many-sided as to constitute a whole literature'. ... Read more

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Poetica 12

`An Unofficial Rilke' is Michael Hamburger's choice from the many miscellaneous poems which Rilke wrote between 1912, when the `Duino Elegies' began to take shape in his mind, and his death in 1926. From Rilke's crisis and post-crisis years Michael Hamburger has translated poems in which Rilke confronted energies or realities that endangered his mastery, or those in which he ventured into territory that was new to him. Some of these poems will seem uncharacteristic to readers whose view of Rilke is based on his more official canon; Rilke's failure to recognize their worth can only be understood in terms of his loss of faith and his sense of disorientation.

In his penetrating and sympathetic introduction Michael Hamburger describes the nature of Rilke's personal and artistic crisis, explores the tensions and cross-currents of his later poetry, and argues persuasively for the revaluation of his miscellaneous poems. Michael Hamburger, poet and critic, is the leading translator of German poetry. ... Read more

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Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating revisions, new translations and other supplementary material. It is the classic English edition of Hölderlin's poetry for our age. ... Read more

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These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal.Grass's spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German originals face the translation. Translated by Michael Hamburger. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book ... Read more

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