Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Poems is a collection of 31 poems written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1899 and 1921. They were selected and translated to English by James Wright in 1970 from Die Gedichte, which was published in German in 1953. This collection was first published in 1971.
His work with translations of German and South American poets, as well as the poetry and aesthetic position of Robert Bly, had considerable influence on his own poems; this is most evident in The Branch Will Not Break, which departs radically from the formal style of Wright's previous book, Saint Judas.
The poem concludes with the line "I have wasted my life." The line is one of the most highly regarded and widely debated lines in contemporary poetry, [2] [1] and has often been seen as having had cemented Wright's poetic legacy. [3] The line has been widely interpreted.
Twenty Poems, trans. by James Wright and Robert Bly — PDF file of a 1961 translation, listed in Bibliography The Complete Writings of Georg Trakl in English – translations by Wersch and Jim Doss [4] Trakl texts set to music, translated by Bertram Kottmann
In general, deep image poems are resonant, stylized and heroic in tone. Longer poems tend to be catalogues of free-standing images. The deep image group was short-lived in the manner that Kelly and Rothenberg defined. It was later redeveloped by Robert Bly and used by many, such as Galway Kinnell and James Wright. The redevelopment relied on ...
Poets in English such as Isaac Watts, William Cowper, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Allen Ginsberg, and James Wright have used the Sapphic stanza. In German, Friedrich Hölderlin excelled in Alcaic and Asclepiadic odes. Hungarian poets such as Dániel Berzsenyi and Mihály Babits have also written in Alcaics.
James Wright – Historia Histrionica; Poetry. Thomas Brown – A Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, etc. ... German-born Dutch philologist (died 1782) Deaths
The Rider on the White Horse (German: Der Schimmelreiter) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm. It is his last complete work, first published in 1888, the year of his death. The novella is Storm's best remembered and most widely read work, and considered by many to be his masterpiece.