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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... passion . He believed with Diderot that only passions , great passions , can lift the soul to greatness . His poetry is the product of a blessedly powerful imagination that needed to be fuelled by extreme feelings . He was frequently ...
... passion . He believed with Diderot that only passions , great passions , can lift the soul to greatness . His poetry is the product of a blessedly powerful imagination that needed to be fuelled by extreme feelings . He was frequently ...
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... passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us , for that moment only . Not the fruit of experience , but the experience itself , is the end . A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a ...
... passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us , for that moment only . Not the fruit of experience , but the experience itself , is the end . A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a ...
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... passion was the sine qua non of creativity ( Delacroix : ' There is in me some black depth which must be appeased ... passion , for if Delacroix was ' passionately in love with passion ' , this is no less fundamentally true of Heym ...
... passion was the sine qua non of creativity ( Delacroix : ' There is in me some black depth which must be appeased ... passion , for if Delacroix was ' passionately in love with passion ' , this is no less fundamentally true of Heym ...
Contents
ROMANTIC HERO | 33 |
EARLY POETRY AND DRAMA | 59 |
LIFE AND DEATH 19101912 | 99 |
Copyright | |
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