Phantasus book completed
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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Introducing Arno Holz Phantasus
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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