Kategorie: International Poetry
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Jacques Prévert: The Poet of Everyday Life
Jacques Prévert is a poetic icon in France today, his poems are part of the school curriculum. Given the poet’s deliberate distance from high culture and notably from traditional school education, this is not devoid of irony. The present eBook sketches a portrait of the poet in five chapters. In…
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Anna Akhmatova and the Russian Soul
Poems against Terror Anna Akhmatova, a renowned poet before the October Revolution, became an ostracised outsider in the Bolshevik state. This is also reflected in her poems.
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Dieter Hoffmann: Charles Baudelaire’s Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)
An Overwiew with Newly Translated Poems Charles Baudelaire’s poetic flower garden exudes many different fragrances. The most exquisite of them enable us to achieve what Baudelaire regarded as the most noble goal of his poetry: they allow us to „catch a glimpse of paradise“. – A poetic bouquet of flowers,…
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Russian Anti-War Songs
On the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian anti-war songs can serve as proof of something that today’s Kremlin rulers would probably condemn as „extremist“: that in Russia, too, there are people who detest war. In Russia, too, there is a strong tradition of anti-militarist thinking and poetry.…
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Dieter Hoffmann / Ilona Lay: Paul Verlaine in the Mirror of his Poems
A Look at the Life and Work of the Poet – With English Adaptations by Ilona Lay The life of the French poet Paul Verlaine (1844 – 1896) was marked by inner conflicts and the futile search for a place in life. This is also re-flected in his poems. Their…
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Dieter Hoffmann: Italian Poetry 1885 – 1950
Giosuè Carducci – Giovanni Pascoli – Ada Negri – Eugenio Montale – Giuseppe Ungaretti – Salvatore Quasimodo – Mario Luzi – Antonia Pozzi – Cesare Pavese – Elsa Morante Italian poetry experienced an extraordinary heyday in the first half of the 20th century. The PDF/eBook Italian Poetry 1885 – 1950 opens a…
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