German Poetry from 1750 to 1900: Goethe, Holderlin, Nietzsche and others

by Robert M. Browning (Editor), Michael Hamburger (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826402837
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/1984
Series:	German Library , #39
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Sales rank:	649,670
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword: Michael Hamburger

Introduction: Robert M. Browning

MATTHIAS CLAUDIAS (1740-1814)

Der Säemann säet den Samen/The sower is sowing his seed

(K. Negus)

Abendlied/Evening Song

(A. Gode)

Die Sternseherin Lise/The Stargazing Maiden

(S.Z. Buehne)

Kriegslied/A Song of War

(A. Bloch)

Christiane

(J.W. Thomas)

Der Tod und das Mädchen/Death and the Girl

(J.W. Thomas)

Der Tod/Death

(R.M. Browning)

GOTTFRIED AUGUST BÜRGER (1747-1794)

Lenore/Leonore

(J.C. Mangan)

LUDWIG CHRISTOPH HEINRICH HÖLTY (1748-1776)

Auftrag/Mandate

(G.C. Schoolfield)

Die Schale der Vergessenheit/The Cup of Oblivion

(G.C. Schoolfield)

An den Abendstern/To the Evening Star

(J.W. Thomas)

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)

Mailied/May Song

(J.F. Nims)

Willkommen und Abschied/The Meeting, The Departure

(J.F. Nims)

Im Herbst 1775/Autumn, 1775

(R.M. Browning)

Prometheus

(M. Hamburger)

Mahomets Gesang/A Song to Mahomet

(C. Middleton)

Auf dem See/On the Lake

(J.S. Dwight)

An den Mond/To the Moon

(J.F. Nims)

Grenzen der Menschheit/Human Limits

(M. Hamburger)

Wandrers Nachtlied/Ein Gleiches/Wanderer's Night-Songs

(H.W. Longfellow)

Mignon (Kennst du das Land)/Mignon (You know that land)

(J.F. Nims)

Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt/Who Yearning Knows

(S. Spender)

Alles geben die Götter/The Gods Give Everything

(S. Spender)

Anakreons Grab/Anacreon's Grave

(M. Hamburger)

Natur und Kunst/Sonnet

(M. Hamburger)

Gefunden/In a Glade

(R. Garnett)

Wiederfinden/Reunion

(C. Middleton)

Proemion

(E.A. Bowring)

Urworte, Orphisch/Primeval Words, Orphic

(M. Knight and J. Fabry)

Selige Sehnsucht/Blessed Longing

(M. Hamburger)

Dauer im Wechsel/Permanence in Change

(J.F. Nims)

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER (1759-1803)

Dithyrambe/The Visit of the Gods

(S.T. Coleridge)

Des Mädchens Klage/The Maiden's Plaint

(J.C. Mangan)

Der Ring des Polykrates/Polycrates and His Ring

(J.C. Mangan)

Das Glück/The Gifts of Fortune

(A. Gode)

Nänie/Nenia

(A. Gode)

JOHANN GAUDENZ VON SALIS-SEEWIS (1762-1834)
Lied, zu singen bei einer Wasserfahrt/Song to be Sung During a Trip on the Water
(G.C. Schoolfield)

FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN (1770-1843)
Hyperions Schicksalslied/Hyyperion's Song of Fate
(C. Middleton)
Abendphantasie/Evening Fantasy
(K. Negus)
Menschenbeifall/Public Approval
(K. Negus)
An die jungen Dichter/To Young Poets
(K. Negus)
An die Parzen/To the Fates
(M. Hamburger)
Diotima (Du schweigst und duldest/Diotima (You suffer and keep silent)
(M. Hamburger)
Geh unter, schöne Sonne.../Go down, fair sun...
(E. Henderson)

Der Abschied. Zweite Fassung/The Farewell. Second Version

(C. Middleton)