Life's Golden Tree: Essays in German Literature from the Renaissance to Rilke

Kerth, Thomas (edit.) ; Schoolfield, George C. (edit.)

Published by Camden House, Inc., Columbia, SC, 1996

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Hard cover, 8vo, in navy blue cloth with titles to front and spine in gold, First Edition, (xii), 282pp. English text. Condition: Fine, (like new). ** This is part of a series by Camden House of "Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture." A volume celebrating the career of the scholar Professor Robert Browning, (1911- 2000) who taught for many years at Hamilton College, and was a widely respected author on German poetry. This anthology, in English, contains articles from various scholars, including: Paul F. Casey, "Children and Images of Childhood in German Biblical Drama of the Sixteenth Century"; Thomas Kerth, Sibylle Schwartz and die Art der Bilder"; Gerald Gillespie, "Baroque High: Above it All with Balde"; George C. Schoolfield, "Memory's Lane: Simon Dach's Memel Epithalamium of January 18, 1655"; Anthony J. Harper, "Urbs Litteraria: On Researching the Literary Life of the Town in Seventeenth-Century Germany"; John Roger Paas, "The Production of Emblems in Nurenberg, c. 1650-1680"; Christoph E. Schweitzer, "Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris: Gleich Opfergerüchen ("Parzenlied"); Jeffrey L. Sammons, observations on Aging, Death and Poesy in Heinrich Heine's Late Poem "Bimini," partly Philological"; Clifford Albrecht Bernd, "The German Lyric in the Age of Poetic Realism"; H. Jurgen Meyer-Wendt, "On the Authenticity of Modern Art: Emerson and Nietzsche"; Russell E. Brown, "Trakl's Landscapes: Is That Man a Hunter or a Shepherd?"; Ulrich K. Goldsmith, "Janus on the Threshold: "Time" in Margot Scharpenberg's poetry" and, finally, James Hardin, "Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate." Translations of Rilke's Tenth Duino Elegy 1939-1993.". Seller Inventory # 8838

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Title: Life's Golden Tree: Essays in German ...

Publisher: Camden House, Inc., Columbia, SC

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Inscribed by Author

Edition: First Edition.