Hamburger, Michael

Selected poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger( Book )

19 editions published between 1981 and 1999 in English and German and held by 648 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in 1929 in Bavaria and grew up in Nazi Nuremberg. His poetry's social and moral criticism of the post-war world owes much to Marxism, yet insists on the freedoms which have often been denied by Communist governments: like Orwell he maintains that satire and criticism should not be party-political. As well as being Germany's most important poet, he is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range of interests and his moral passion. Enzensberger's Selected Poems draws on several collections published during the past thirty years, right up to his most recent book, Music of the Future. It includes a large selection from The Sinking of the Titanic, his last British collection, which The Guardian called 'a brilliant fantasia on the foundering of western society'. For George Szirtes, writing in the New Statesman, it was 'a dramatic and philosophical statement of compulsive power ... our emotions and our reason are driven along together as in the best of Brecht. We hear in Enzensberger the human voice amongst human voices, feel the extraordinariness of ordinary men.'

East German poetry; an anthology by Michael Hamburger( Book )

15 editions published between 1972 and 1973 in 3 languages and held by 616 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected poems, 1941-1983 by Michael Hamburger( Book )

26 editions published between 1981 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 596 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Beethoven, letters, journals, and conversations by Ludwig van Beethoven( Book )

28 editions published between 1951 and 1992 in English and German and held by 591 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Leonce and Lena. Lenz. Woyzeck by Georg Büchner( Book )

4 editions published in 1972 in 3 languages and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Art as second nature : occasional pieces, 1950-74 by Michael Hamburger( Book )

21 editions published between 1950 and 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 538 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After the second flood : essays on post-war German literature by Michael Hamburger( Book )

12 editions published in 1986 in English and German and held by 505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From prophecy to exorcism; the premisses of modern German literature by Michael Hamburger( Book )

14 editions published in 1965 in 3 languages and held by 485 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ownerless earth : new & selected poems by Michael Hamburger( Book )

12 editions published between 1970 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 459 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Parisian prowler : Le spleen de Paris, petits poèmes en prose by Charles Baudelaire( Book )

7 editions published between 1968 and 1988 in English and Undetermined and held by 442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From Edouard Manet to T.S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire's influence is beyond estimation. In this prize-winning translation of his no-longer-neglected masterpiece, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking a mélange of reactions, these fifty "fables of modern life" take us on various tours led by a flâneur, an incognito stroller. Through day and night, in gleaming cafés and filthy side streets, this alienated yet compassionate esthete muses on the bizarre in the commonplace, the sublime in the mundane. As the work reveals a teeming metropolis on the eve of great change, we see a Paris as contradictory, surprising, and ultimately unknowable as our guide himself. Complemented by period illustrations, The Parisian Prowler is an essential companion to Les Fleurs du Mal and other works by the father of modern poetry.--From publisher description