Some poems by the German poet Gottfried Benn, mostly based on ancient Greek motifs, are printed here in Tomasz Ososinski's translation.Ososiński,TomaszBenn,GottfriedMeanderDraghici, Simona. Gottfried Benn: Poems 1937-1947. Washington D.G.: Plutarch Press, 1991....
Benn, Gottfried gôtˈfrēt bĕn [key], 1886–1956, German poet and critic, a physician. His early verse and poetic dramas, such as Der Vermessungsdirigent [the surveyor] (1919), were strongly expressionistic and even nihilistic. His later poems, a
Gottfried Benn Bibliographie Gottfried Benn, born 1886 and died 1956, is regarded as one of the most significant poets of Expressionism, that epoch which with its vigorous rejection of... HannaChristian - Gottfried Benn Bibliographie 被引量: 1发表: 2006年 Gottfried Benn's Poems Some poems by ...
The article presents several poems by Gottfried Benn, translated by Michael Hofmann, including "Death of Orpheus," First Line: How can you leave me, darling--; Last Line: the echoing banks --; "Impromptu," First Line: On the radio someone was singing; Last Line: and I wrote him a ...
as Benn suffered the vicissitudes of fate (the death of his mother from cancer; the death of his first wife, Edith; his brief attempt to ingratiate himself with the Nazis, followed by their persecution of him; the suicide of his second wife, Herta), the harsh voice of the poems relented...
This book is the first comprehensive study of Gottfried Benn's poetry to appear in English. It covers the entirety of Benn's verse, from his early cycle (1912) and Expressionist poems through to the anthropological poetry of his middle period to the postmodern work after the Second World ...
One of the most striking phenomena of German literature during the postwar period is the sudden rise to prominence of Gottfried Benn, who published his first book—a volume of brutal, Expressionist poems called Morgue—in 1912. Curiously enough, it is not his poetry that has catapulted him in...
Gottfried Benn (1889–1956) ranks among the few German twentieth-century poets who gained international recognition. His poetic oeuvre spans a period of more than four decades (1910-55). While his early poems share certain stylistic and thematic features with German expressionism and while, in ...
Gottfried Benn's Poems Some poems by the German poet Gottfried Benn, mostly based on ancient Greek motifs, are printed here in Tomasz Ososinski's translation. Ososiński,Tomasz,Benn,Gottfried - 《Meander》 被引量: 1发表: 2005年 Medicine and literature: "Nobel Prize No jokes please!" : Gott...
He also refusesto answer questions on the meaning of his poems. He seems to propose a position similar to Susan Sontag's essay Against interpretation (1961). The current paper analyses three poems in which Benn grapples with the contradictions of his poetological stance and the problematic ...