To the Silenced

by Trakl, Georg; Stone, William

• ISBN13: 9781904614104
• ISBN10: 1904614108
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago, the mesmerising imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly intro-spective poems are as powerful today as they were when he wrote them. A source of inspiration for artists, musicians and writers throughout the Expressionist period and beyond, Trakl's poetry - bleak, yet revealing tenderness and hope, nightmarish yet eerily beautiful - can be savoured to the full in Will Stone's new translation of a representative selection of Trakl's finest work (complete with introductory essays and commentary), a volume which promises to rekindle interest in the work of this seminal poet.

Table of Contents

The horror	p. 37
St. Peter's churchyard	p. 39
Winter dusk	p. 41
Romance to night	p. 43
The rats	p. 45
Dream of evil	p. 47
Psalm	p. 49
Dejection	p. 53
De Profundis	p. 55
Trumpets	p. 57
Mankind	p. 57
Three glances into an opal	p. 59
My heart towards evening	p. 63
Nearness of death	p. 63
Amen	p. 65
Helian	p. 67
Decline	p. 77
To the boy Elis	p. 79
Elis	p. 81
Wayfaring	p. 85
Sebastian in dream	p. 89
On the moor	p. 93
Rest and silence	p. 95
On the Monchsberg	p. 97
Kaspar Hauser song	p. 99
Along	p. 101
Autumn of the solitary	p. 103
To the silenced	p. 105
To one who died young	p. 107
Birth	p. 109
The wayfarer	p. 111
The Sun	p. 113
Fohn	p. 115
Winter night	p. 117
In Venice	p. 119
Summer	p. 121
Close of summer	p. 123
Year	p. 125
The west	p. 127
Song of a captive blackbird	p. 131
Limbo	p. 133
The heart	p. 135
Melancholy	p. 137
Homecoming	p. 139
Evening	p. 141
The night	p. 143
In Hellbrunn	p. 145
Lament (I)	p. 147
Surrender to night	p. 149
In the east	p. 149
Lament (II)	p. 151
Grodek	p. 153
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