Ludwig van Beethoven

Michael Hamburger

Comments by contemporaries depict the composer's music and personality and accompany selections from his letters to friends and other artists

Beethoven, Letters, Journals, and Conversations

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A perfect introduction to the great German poet, with a useful introduction by his superb translator.

Roman Elegies and Other Poems

Paul Celan

Presents a selection of the poems of Paul Celan translated into English, with the original German on facing pages, that includes a substantial essay by the translator on translating Celan's poetry.

Poems of Paul Celan

Seminal work of literary criticism, examining modern European and American poetry.

Tensions in Modernist Poetry Since Baudelaire

The Truth of Poetry

Nelly Sachs

Abba Kovner

Selected Poems [of] Abba Kovner

Ownerless Earth; New & Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Contents: Poems and Verse Plays; Plays and Libretti; Hofmannsthal's Debt to the English-speaking World Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Three Essays

Hofmannsthal

This essential compendium celebrates an outstanding writer s work and forms a substantial sampler of his writing in different literary genres."

A Michael Hamburger Reader

Georg Büchner

Lenz. Woyzeck

Leonce and Lena

Simon Williams

Maik Hamburger

Wilhelm Hortmann

Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre against the background of German culture and politics in the twentieth century. It follows the earlier volume by Simon Williams on the reception of Shakespeare during the previous 300 years (Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914). Hortmann concentrates on the two most important and fruitful periods: the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the turbulent decades of the sixties and seventies, when the German theatre was revitalised by a stormy marriage of avant-garde art and revolutionary politics. A section by Maik Hamburger covers developments in the theatres of the German Democratic Republic. Hortmann focuses on the most representative and colourful directors and actors, describing and illustrating individual productions as examples of particular trends or movements.

Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century

First published in 1982, The Truth of Poetry attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What kind of truth does poetry offer in modern times? Michael Hamburger’s answer to this question ranges over the last century of European and American poetry, and the result is a phenomenology of modern poetry rather than a history of appreciations of individual poets. Stressing the tensions and conflicts in and behind the work of every major poet of the period, he considers the many different possibilities open to poets since Baudelaire. This expansive work of analysis will be of interest to students of English literature, poetry enthusiasts and literary historians.

Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960s

An Anthology

German Poetry, 1910-1975

East German Poetry

A critical examination of the nature and function of modern poetic expression

Michael Hamburger

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