Georg Heym was one of the towering figures of the great age of modern German poetry despite having drowned at the age of 24. A poet of the big city, he takes the tradition to its limits; his dark imagery and horrific visions, conveyed in tight metric forms of inexorable force, foreshadowing the experience of both world wars. Hasler's is the fullest selection to appear in English.
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<div>"Almost a hundred years since his early death, we now have at last available in English the lyric work of one of the greatest poets of Expressionism, Georg Heym, precursor of Surrealism and powerful prophetic visionary of the catastrophic aspects of the twentieth century. His remarkable poetry comes to us in a superb translation. Antony Hasler transmits the original with astonishing faithfulness and a poetic skill that makes the German poems as effective in English as they are in their original language. Hasler does full justice to Heym's masterful rhythm and startling imagery." --Walter H. Sokel, Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of German and English Literature, University of Virginia
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<div>Georg Heym (1887-1912) was a German Expressionist poet and fiction writer. Influenced by Rimbaud and Baudelaire, Heym in turn had an influence on many major twentieth-century German writers.
Antony Hasler is an editor for the online journal Literature Compass (published by Blackwell) and a member of the committee for the MLA Discussion Group for Scottish Language and Literature.
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Antony Hasler is an editor for the online journal Literature Compass (published by Blackwell) and a member of the committee for the MLA Discussion Group for Scottish Language and Literature.
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