German Poetry : A Guide to Free Appreciation

Gray, Ronald D.

ISBN 10: 0521209315 / ISBN 13: 9780521209311

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1976

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Synopsis:

Dr Gray aims to encourage in students beginning to read and write about German poetry the skills which will help them to read and write with more insight. After outlining this aim in its introduction, this 1976 book takes the form of a selection of German poems from Luther to Brecht, carefully grouped for purposes of comparison, and with graded questions. Most of the poems are from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but there are also translations from and into German for comparison with the originals, groups of poems on common themes, and different versions of the same poem. It is possible to trace in outline some of the main historical trends of German poetry, and to acquire basic technical knowledge within the book, but its main aim is to guide the reader towards a closer feeling for the words on the page.

Book Description: This book outlines some of the main historical trends of German poetry and illustrates them with a selection of poems. It also teaches the reader a basic technical knowledge, but its main aim is to encourage students of German poetry to read and write with more insight.

Bibliographic Details

Title: German Poetry : A Guide to Free Appreciation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: Revised.