Wild and Wounded Shorter Poems 2000-2003

by Hamburger, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780856463716
• ISBN10: 085646371X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Wild and Wounded collects Michael Hamburger's shorter poems since Intersections(2000). It was published in England in March 2004 to mark the 80th birthday of one of Britain's leading poets (and translators) of the last half-century. Like Hardy and Yeats-but like so few others-Hamburger continues in old age to write with the same clarity and power as throughout his poetic career of over 60 years.

Author Biography

Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924 and came to Britain as a child in 1933. He is the foremost translator of German poetry into English - among the many authors he has translated from are Hölderlin, Celan, Rilke and Goethe - and one of Britain's leading poets of the period since World War 2.

Table of Contents

Apology	p. 5
Redundant epitaphs	p. 11
Detained	p. 15
Diminuendo	p. 20
Muted song	p. 21
Wild and wounded	p. 22
Fallen	p. 26
Memorial	p. 26
Summer yet again	p. 27
The dog-days interrupted	p. 28
'An embassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his countrey'	p. 31
Sketches towards an impossible portrait	p. 32
The alienation of John Clare	p. 35
Rest on the flight	p. 37
Mr. Littlejoy's belated response	p. 38
Letter to L.F.	p. 39
At the mixed farm	p. 42
At Liverpool Street Station	p. 43
Post-Paschal 2003	p. 44
Plus Ca change...	p. 47
Holiday town	p. 51
Injured cow	p. 53
Plum	p. 56
Impertinent questions	p. 57
Beech Hedge in winter	p. 58
Marrow	p. 59
Advice towards closing time	p. 60
Waiting for the river ferry	p. 61
A cat's last summer	p. 62
November light	p. 63
Chiaroscuro	p. 67
Amor Fati, February	p. 68
Conversation with the muse of old age	p. 70
Avoir de la Bouteille	p. 72
Tautological ode to a cat	p. 73
Chauffeuse	p. 76
Fragment	p. 78
Appendix to the deeds	p. 79
Snowed in	p. 81
Transition	p. 83
Ave Atque Vale	p. 84
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