Poet of Expressionist Berlin: The Life and Work of Georg HeymAn account of one of the leading poets of early (pre-World War I) German 20th century literature. This is a biography and a critical study, which also works as an introduction to the early modern German literary scene, in particular the literary life and letters of pre-1914 Berlin. Heym is recognized as one of the great European big-city poets, in the tradition of Baudelaire. Over 40 of his poems are quoted in full in the book, in their German original with accompanying English prose translations, put in context and discussed. Heym was in many ways an ideal representative type of German literary Expressionism: a rebel against his authoritarian and conservative family and background. |
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... obsessed with beauty , love , evil and death . In 1906 one of his proudest possessions was an old skull which he found in the churchyard of the old Klosterkirche in Neuruppin and which he crowned with a wreath of vine leaves . To it he ...
... obsessed with beauty , love , evil and death . In 1906 one of his proudest possessions was an old skull which he found in the churchyard of the old Klosterkirche in Neuruppin and which he crowned with a wreath of vine leaves . To it he ...
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... obsessed , something which can ( and occasionally does ) lead to mawkishness for precisely the reason spelt out by Keats in the Preface to ' Endymion ' : The imagination of a boy is healthy , and the mature imagination of a man is ...
... obsessed , something which can ( and occasionally does ) lead to mawkishness for precisely the reason spelt out by Keats in the Preface to ' Endymion ' : The imagination of a boy is healthy , and the mature imagination of a man is ...
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... obsessed by the problem of existence , a man who seems to be forever brooding on this.10 While the idea of a hostile personal destiny runs right through the diaries , following the break with Hedi Weißenfels on his return to Berlin in ...
... obsessed by the problem of existence , a man who seems to be forever brooding on this.10 While the idea of a hostile personal destiny runs right through the diaries , following the break with Hedi Weißenfels on his return to Berlin in ...
Contents
ROMANTIC HERO | 33 |
EARLY POETRY AND DRAMA | 59 |
LIFE AND DEATH 19101912 | 99 |
Copyright | |
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