Poems and prose
Author | : Georg Trakl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105025263497 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Poems and prose written by Georg Trakl and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valery, and T. S. Eliot. The distinctive tone of Trakl's work--especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein--is autumnal and melancholy. Trakl was writing at a time of spiritual and social disintegration on the eve of the First World War, when personal values and perceptions tended to be subsumed in a more generalized anguish and exaltation.