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"Few English poets of our day can have come to their craft with the cultural and linguistic richness of Michael Hamburger."—Stephen Romer in Agenda
For many years the Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll was a friend and admirer of the English poet, critic, and translator Michael Hamburger. After Hamburger's death in 2007, he determined to compile a "Reader," giving representative selections from Hamburger's varied writings. His choice illuminates the breadth and depth of Hamburger's concerns, spanning autobiographical writings, interviews, poems, German translations, and a range of critical essays on writers from Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Büchner, Heinrich Heine, and Georg Trakl to T. S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht, and other moderns and contemporaries. It is a unique compendium of a wonderful writer's essential work.
Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924 and moved to Britain in 1933. He published many books of poetry, several collections of essays, a classic study of modernist poetry since Charles Baudelaire, The Truth of Poetry, and an autobiography. He translated from, among others, Johann Wolfgang con Goethe, Freidrich Hölderlin, Rainer Mari Rilke, and Paul Celan. His awards included the Goethe Medal of the German Federal Republic for services to German literature and the European community's first European Translation Prize for Poems of Paul Celan, now in its third edition. He died at home in Suffolk in 2007.
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) published nine collections of poetry, a book of essays, two collections of literary quotations, and Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney. He received numerous honors and awards both in Ireland and the United States.
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Michael Hamburger (1924–2007) was a poet and critic of distinction as well as the outstanding translator of German poetry. His awards include the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (1981), the German Federal Republic’s Goethe Medal (1986) and the EC’s first European Translation Prize (1990) for Poems of Paul Celan. Dennis O’Driscoll (1954–2012) was born in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Apart from nine collections of poetry, books published during his lifetime included a selection of essays and reviews, and two collections of literary quotations.
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- PublisherAnvil Pr Poetry Ltd
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0856464554
- ISBN 13 9780856464553
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages592
- EditorDennis O'Driscoll
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