Description:An essential collection of the visionary poet Georg Trakl’s finest work in a new translation by poet Will StoneGeorg Trakl is recognised as one of the most important European poets of the twentieth century. His visionary poetry has influenced not only later poets but also composers, artists and filmmakers. The full measure of Trakl’s genius can be appreciated in this extensive Collected Poems, intuitively translated by poet Will Stone, which features the key collections including the posthumously published Sebastian in Dream, 1915. Supplementary to these are the poems originally published in the literary journal Der Brenner as well as a discerning selection of Trakl’s uncollected work.Trakl’s trademark tonal qualities, his melancholy stamp, the often apocalyptic but eerily beautiful language gradually infect the reader. His poems are awash with images, symbolic colours and signs; mysterious dream-like figures appear and vanish, and an alternative world is born out of the unconscious. The most sensitive observer of Trakl’s poetry was his contemporary, Rainer Maria Rilke, who concluded: ‘For me, the Trakl poem is an object of sublime existence…’We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl. To get started finding Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
304
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Release
2019
ISBN
1782275177
Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl
Description: An essential collection of the visionary poet Georg Trakl’s finest work in a new translation by poet Will StoneGeorg Trakl is recognised as one of the most important European poets of the twentieth century. His visionary poetry has influenced not only later poets but also composers, artists and filmmakers. The full measure of Trakl’s genius can be appreciated in this extensive Collected Poems, intuitively translated by poet Will Stone, which features the key collections including the posthumously published Sebastian in Dream, 1915. Supplementary to these are the poems originally published in the literary journal Der Brenner as well as a discerning selection of Trakl’s uncollected work.Trakl’s trademark tonal qualities, his melancholy stamp, the often apocalyptic but eerily beautiful language gradually infect the reader. His poems are awash with images, symbolic colours and signs; mysterious dream-like figures appear and vanish, and an alternative world is born out of the unconscious. The most sensitive observer of Trakl’s poetry was his contemporary, Rainer Maria Rilke, who concluded: ‘For me, the Trakl poem is an object of sublime existence…’We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl. To get started finding Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.