German Poetry Resources

 

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German can be learnt from books, tapes, courses and CDs, available at multilingual, worldlanguage, arthur lynn, rosetta stone, language quest, pimsleur, accelerated learning and unforgettable languages.

Free lessons and material are at deutsch lernen, germanfortravellers, phrasebase, word2word, actilingua, about, languages4everyone and search language.

Other works, dictionaries, etc. can be ordered through grant and cutler, bestbookbuys, abebooks and alibris.

German-English-German online dictionaries are at multilingual books, word2word, dictionary.com, prompt online, lexilogos and 1-800 translate.

Machine translation can be helpful, though you will need some grammar to correct the rendering: omnilang, free translation, ibm, google, babelfish, systran, worldlingo, prompt and reverso.

Some useful language exchanges: friends abroad, xlingo, mylanguage exchange, polyglot learn language, and lingozone.

German Poetry

Translations can be found at poetry-archive, kline, poem hunter, schiller institute, abelard and massaad. A good site for German poetry generally is german corner.

For modern German poetry see shearsman pinko about, Gottfried Benn, Günter Eich, Karl Krolow, Peter Huchel, Johannes Bobrowski, Bertold Brecht , Erich Fried, Wolf Biermann, Walter Höllerer, Peter Handke.

German poetry is well anthologised in O. Duranni's German Poetry of the Romantic Era (1986) and R. Browning's German Poetry 1750 to 1900 (1984), and discussed in A. Closs's The Genius of the German Lyric (1962).

Goethe

Even on the Internet, the majority of Goethe resources are in German, but English readers will find these sites useful: goethe collected, goethe page, worldroots, bartleby, theatre history, aspirennies, amazon, moonstruck and gaiaguys.

The Goethe Society of North America encourages research and the more popular works are translated in the Penguin Classics series.

Heine

Information on Heine can be found at books and writers, hellenbroich, German news, allrefer, gugiu, new advent, encyclopedia.com, wikipedia, shea and schons.

For books on German Romanticism see B. Peuker's Lyric Descent in German Romantic Tradition (1987), and H. Bloom's German Poetry through 1915 (1987). On Heine himself are S. Prawer's Heine the Tragic Satirist (1961), Laura Hofrichter's Heinrich Heine (1963).

Rilke

Information on and translations of Rilke can be found at poets.org, kline, landman, hunter, and writers word.

Innumerable studies exist — H E Holthusen's R.M. Rilke: A Study of His Later Poetry (1952), H W Belmore's Rilke's Craftsmanship: An Analysis of this Poetic Style (1954) and R. Gass's Reading Gass Reading Rilke, to name but three. Well-regarded translations include: J B Leishman's Duino Elegies (1939), E Snow's The Book of Images (1991), S. Mitchell's Duino Elegies (1992) and Kinnell and Liebmann's The Essential Rilke (2000). A short bibliography is given by books and writers, and readings by Cliff Crego. German readers will find these useful: rilke gesellschaft, gutenberg and litlinks.

Celan

Information on Celan can be found at paul celan homepage, encyclopedia.com, wikipedia, mayer, little blue lamp, felstiner, books and writers, smith, language hat, holst-warhaft, looksmart and geocities.

Celan has been much translated, often very successfully: poem hunter, schiller institute, norton poets, and in book form: Evidence of Fire (1989) I. Fairley's Fathomsuns and Benighted, Penguin Book of German Verse (1957), Modern German Poetry (1962), East German Poetry (1972) and German Poetry 1910-75 (1976).

For literary criticism on Celan and post war German poetry see: M. Hamburger's After the Second Flood (1986) and J. Rolleston's Narratives of Ecstasy: Romantic Temporality in Modern German Poetry (1987), P.J. Thomson's An Introduction to Modern German Poetry (1975) and H. Bloom's Modern German Poetry (1989).

 

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