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Poems and prose : a bilingual edition

✍ Scribed by Georg Trakl; Alexander Stillmark


Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Leaves
217
Series
European poetry classics
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


"The distinctive autumnal and melancholy tone of Trakl's work - especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein - reflects the spiritual and social disintegration on the eve of the First World War. The generalized sense of anguish and exaltation of this period is the background to Trakl's transcendent, often hymnic, always lyrical voice and to his haunting imagery in which purgatory and paradise are never far  Read more...


The ravens --

Amid red foliage full of guitars --

Music in the mirabell --

Dusk in winter --

Rondelet --

The beautiful city --

In winter I --

At eventide my heart --

Melancholy --

Transfigured autumn --

Forest nook --

In an old family album --

Mankind --

De profundis --

Trumpets --

The rats --

Psalm I --

Songs of the rosary --

Nearness of death --

Amen --

Decay --

In the village --

Evening song --

Three glances into an opal --

Night song --

Helian --

Childhood --

Song of hours --

On a journey --

Landscape --

To the boy Elis --

Elis --

Hohenburg --

Sebastian in a dream --

By the moor --

In spring --

Evening in lans --

By the monchsberg --

Kaspar Hauser song --

At night.


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