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Paul Celan
Paul Celan , pseud. of Paul Antschel , 1920-70, Romanian-French poet. Although he spent his early years in Romania and his later years in France, Celan wrote in German and is widely considered the greatest postwar poet in Europe. A Jew, who lost both parents in a Nazi camp, he composed works that... Read more |
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Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan , 1897-1970, American poet and critic, b. Livermore, Maine. She spent much of her life in New York City and was for many years poetry editor for The New Yorker magazine. Her verse is intense, personal, and yet restrained, revealing a metaphysical awareness of the tragedy of life.... Read more |
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Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg , 1926-97, American poet, b. Paterson, N.J., grad. Columbia, 1949. An outspoken member of the beat generation , Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking American values in the 1950s. The prose of Jack Kerouac , the insights of Zen Buddhism , and the free... Read more |
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George William Russell
George William Russell pseud. A. E., 1867-1935, Irish author, b. Lurgan, educated in Dublin. An active member of the Irish nationalist movement, he edited the Irish Homestead (1904-23) and the Irish Statesman (1923-30). He worked with Sir Horace Plunkett for Irish agricultural improvement,... Read more |
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Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova , pseud. of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko , 1888-1966, Russian poet of the Acmeist school. Her brief lyrics, simply and musically written in the tradition of Pushkin, attained great popularity. Her themes were personal, emotional, and often ironic. Among her most popular volumes are ... Read more |
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Paul Valery
Paul Valéry , 1871-1945, French poet and critic. A follower of the symbolists , Valéry was one of the greatest French poets of the 20th cent. He was encouraged by Pierry Loüys and by Mallarmé to publish a few poems in several small reviews, but he soon turned from poetry... Read more |
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Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen , 1873-1950, Danish writer. As a young man he studied medicine; his interest in biology and anthropology is obvious throughout his works. Jensen created a distinctive literary form in his "myths," brief prose tales with an element of the essay. Selections have been... Read more |
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Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer , 1885-1977, American poet and anthologist, b. New York City. Although a first-rate poet, he is known best for his anthologies, notably Modern American Poetry (1919), Modern British Poetry (1920), This Singing World (1923), Fifty Modern American and British Poets: 1920-1970 ... Read more |
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Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly Singer, songwriter For the Record… Selected discography Sources Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is a star in his own country; in 1997 his retrospective album Songs from the South: Paul Kelly Read more |
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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan.(Book Review)
...reading of the late poem 'Komm, leg die...from the Tubinger Celan Ausgabe of Der...as developed in Celan's poetry and...initiation into Celan's poetic thinking...The anthology Selected Poems and Prose of ... |
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John Felstiner, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan.(Book Review)
...Celan's poems we hear the...intelligence--a poem, as much...brevity of the poem. We sense...yet the poem refuses to...itself," Celan said. For...Stop, 101 Poems by Paul ... |
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Paul Celan 2000. (Review Essay).(Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience...
...c); $24.95 (p). Glottal Stop: 101 Poems, by Paul Celan, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh...of New England, 2000. 147 pp. $24.95. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, ... |
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The Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
The Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner. With selections that range from Celan's pre-- Holocaust boyhood, to...early 70's, the volume captures Celan's raw, powerful vision. By ... |
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Celan, the poet of painful Yahrzeit.(Paul Celan)
...tongue was the German that Celan wrote in all his life...Felstiner's biography of Celan and his translations, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton, 2001), I have been including a ... |
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Speaking Volumes: Black Milk of Daybreak; How one poem affected survivors and...
...kept a notebook for poems, and over timelearned...brotherhood"to move Celan to translate. He...spareness.Perhaps Celan's most famous poem is "Todesfuge...language collection,Selected Poems and Prose of ... |
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The weekly Poem: By Threes, By Fours
...here's the housecat, hunting early. From Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner (W W Norton, pounds 23). Paul Celan was born in 1920 in Bukovina, then part of Romania... |
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Zur Poetik Paul Celans: Gedicht und Mensch - die Arbeit am Sinn.(Book Review)
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. Trans. by JOHN FELSTINER...0-393-04999-x. Paul Celan has been attracting...29-93), the closing poem of Celan's volume Die...frequently. ... |
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Sketch.(Poem)
...the clockhand's direction a poem perhaps Language is shelterless open An erasure of Paul Celan's "Speech on the Occasion...Hanseatic City of Bremen" from Selected Poems and Prose of Paul ... |
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Speech.(Poem)
...have been conversing in is human An erasure of Paul Celan's "Speech to the Hebrew Writers Association" from Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, trans. John Felstiner (New York: Norton... |