Poems of Georg Trakl

by Lehbert, Margitt

• ISBN13: 9780856462856
• ISBN10: 0856462853
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

This collection of Trakl's essential poetry contains the two books published in his lifetime, Gedichte ('Poems', 1913) and Sebastian im Traum ('Sebastian in a Dream', 1914), together with the later poems published in the magazine Der Brenner which might have formed the nucleus of a third collection. His starkly beautiful, musical poems are rightly regarded as being among the early twentieth century's most original poetry. From a life marred by drug addiction and breakdowns, he created work of great depth and power, brought hauntingly to life in Margitt Lehbert's close and sympathetic versions. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Margitt Lehbert was born in Switzerland in 1957 and grew up in Washington D.C. Educated at the Universities of Konstanz and Iowa, she has translated Elizabeth Bishop, Carol Ann Duffy, and Les Murray into German; Sarah Kirsch and Michael Augustin into English. She runs a poetry press from the small farm in Sweden where she lives with her husband. 

 

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Poems
The Ravens	p. 27
The Young Maid	p. 28
Nocturnal Romance	p. 32
"Amid Red Leaves Hung with Guitars"	p. 33
Music in the Mirabell	p. 34
Melancholy of Evening	p. 35
Winter Twilight	p. 36
Rondeau	p. 37
Woman's Blessing	p. 38
The Beautiful City	p. 39
In an Abandoned Room	p. 41
To the Boy Elis	p. 42
Stormy Evening	p. 43
Evening Muse	p. 44
Dream of Evil	p. 45
Spiritual Song	p. 46
In Autumn	p. 47
At Dusk My Heart	p. 48
The Peasants	p. 49
All Souls' Day	p. 50
Melancholy	p. 51
Soul of Life	p. 52
Transfigured Autumn	p. 53
Nook by the Forest	p. 54
In Winter	p. 55
Into an Old Family Register	p. 56
Metamorphosis	p. 57
Small Concert	p. 58
Mankind	p. 59
The Stroll	p. 60
De Profundis	p. 62
Trumpets	p. 63
Twilight	p. 64
Serene Spring	p. 65
Outskirts in the Fohn Wind	p. 67
The Rats	p. 68
Melancholy	p. 69
Whispered into the Afternoon	p. 70
Psalm	p. 71
Rosary Songs
To His Sister	p. 73
Proximity of Death	p. 74
Amen	p. 75
Decay	p. 76
At Home	p. 77
An Autumn Evening	p. 78
Human Misery	p. 79
In the Village	p. 80
Evening Song	p. 82
Three Glimpses into an Opal	p. 83
Night Song	p. 85
Helian	p. 86
Sebastian in a Dream
Sebastian in a Dream
Childhood	p. 95
Song of Hours	p. 96
On the Way	p. 97
Landscape	p. 99
To the Boy Elis	p. 100
Elis	p. 101
Hohenburg	p. 103
Sebastian in a Dream	p. 104
By the Moor	p. 107
In Spring	p. 108
Evening in Lans	p. 109
By the Monchsberg	p. 110
Kaspar-Hauser-Song	p. 111
At Night	p. 112
Transformation of Evil	p. 113
Autumn of the Lonely One
In the Park	p. 117
A Winter Evening	p. 118
The Cursed	p. 119
Sonya	p. 121
Along	p. 122
Autumn Soul	p. 123
Afra	p. 124
Autumn of the Lonely One	p. 125
Sevenfold Song of Death
Rest and Silence	p. 129
Anif	p. 130
Birth	p. 131
Destruction	p. 132
To One Who Died Young	p. 133
Spiritual Twilight	p. 135
Occidental Song	p. 136
Transfiguration	p. 137
Fohn Wind	p. 138
The Wayfarer	p. 139
Karl Kraus	p. 140
To the Ones Who Fell Silent	p. 141
Passion	p. 142
Sevenfold Song of Death	p. 144
Winter Night	p. 146
Song of the One Secluded
In Venice	p. 149
Limbo	p. 150
The Sun	p. 152
Song of a Captive Blackbird	p. 153
Summer	p. 154
The Decline of Summer	p. 155
Year	p. 156
Occident	p. 157
Springtime of the Soul	p. 159
In Darkness	p. 161
Song of the One Secluded	p. 162
Dream and Derangement	p. 165
Publications in "Der Brenner" 1914-15
In Hellbrunn	p. 173
The Heart	p. 174
Sleep	p. 176
The Thunderstorm	p. 177
Evening	p. 179
Night	p. 180
Melancholy	p. 181
The Return	p. 182
Lament	p. 183
Surrender to Night	p. 184
In the East	p. 185
Lament	p. 186
Grodek	p. 187
Revelation and Destruction	p. 188
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