THE BOOKSHELF
Here is a catalogue of all my translations from the German. All those not yet published as books can be…
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UPDATES: Yolla, Holz, Gurk, Müller, Amazonas, Anders
As work proceeds with the main task of bringing neglected 20th Century German authors to a wider public, some ancillary…
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The first substantial English translation of Arno Holz’s poetry is now ready for publication. It includes the complete 100-poem first…
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The German poet Arno Holz – still too little known even among German readers – is as good as…
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The poet Arno Holz was born 156 years ago today, on 26 April 1863 in Rastenburg, East Prussia. We…
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Loss, love, longing, joy, scorn, sadness – Holz can capture moods and emotions with the condensed economy of a haiku…
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Fully one-third of the poems in Phantasus depict imagined fantastical scenes and behaviours, sometimes juxtaposed for satirical effect with…
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Arno Holz was deeply interested in the scientific developments of the later 19 th century, when evolution was part…
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The plain uncomplicated language of the 101 poems in the first (1898-99) edition of Phantasus packs a considerable punch…
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The first version of Arno Holz’s poem cycle ‘Phantasus’, published in 1898-99, contains 101 short poems, each presenting a scene…
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