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The Garden of TheophrastusSelected PoemsPeter HuchelTranslated by Michael Hamburger
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (208 pages) (Pub. Aug 2004) 9780856463440 Out of Stock
The Garden of Theophrastus This new edition of The Garden of Theophrastus brings back into print one of Germany’s finest recent poets, in translations by his close friend Michael Hamburger. Peter Huchel (1903–1981) wrote amidst the political turmoil of twentieth-century Germany before the country’s re-unification. A highly influential figure in the former East Germany, he edited the magazine Sinn und Form there until 1962 but was dismissed for indulging too ‘liberal’ a policy. Before that break, and through the hardship of the Second World War and its vexed aftermath, he maintained a poetry of humane commitment, formal invention and precision.
Praise for Michael Hamburger
'O'Driscoll manages to get the reader as close to Hamburger as possible in one book. It feels very much like spending a week at your grandfather's house - getting to listen to all his stories, roaming through cupboards, reading the works hidden inside.'
Dominik Szczepaniak, DURA |
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