Kategorie: Poets
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The Painter-Poet
Jules Breton’s Pictorial Poems The poet, as is often said, paints with words. This is also the case with Jules Breton (1827 – 1906). However, mainly at home in the visual arts, he also stands for the special case of a painter who writes painted poetry, i.e. creates particularly pictorial…
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Minstrels: Ideal and Reality
About the Poem Ich hân mîn lêhen (I Have My Fief) by Walther von der Vogelweide In one of his poems, the medieval minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide celebrates the fundamental change in his life brought about by a fief granted to him by Emperor Frederick II. This sheds light…
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Summer Dreams in Winter Hell
A Winter Song by Walther von der Vogelweide Winter can still be quite uncomfortable for us today. In earlier times, however, it could be life-threatening for people. A poem by the medieval minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide bears witness to this. [Winter]1 The world shone brightly, yellow, red and blue,The…
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Robert de Souza: Le sommeil des cygnes (Sleeping Swans)
The work of the French poet Robert de Souza (1864 – 1946) has been unjustly fallen into oblivion. This can be exemplified by his poem Le sommeil des cygnes (The Sleep of the Swans / Sleeping Swans). It is obviously inspired by symbolism, but has a meditative tone all of…
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Anna Akhmatova and the Russian Soul
Poems against Terror Anna Akhmatova, a renowned poet before the October Revolution, becamean ostracised outsider in the Bolshevik state. This is also reflected in her poems. PDF Title: Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya (1875 – 1952): Portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1914); Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery (Wikimedia Commons)– Detail
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The Homeless Homeland Poet
About the Russian Poet Sergei Yesenin With an English Adaptation of One of his Autumn Poems The Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895 – 1925) described himself as the „last peasant poet“. The inner conflict that characterises many of his poems, however, rather reflects life in the modern age and the…
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