The Truth of Poetry: Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960's - Softcover

Hamburger, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041634240X ISBN 13: 9780416342406

Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1983

Synopsis

A critical examination of the nature and function of modern poetic expression

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924 and came to Britain as a child in 1933. He is the foremost translator of German poetry into English - among the many authors he has translated from are Hölderlin, Celan, Rilke and Goethe - and one of Britain's leading poets of the period since World War 2.

Review:

'This is virtually an encyclopaedia of modern poetry; as such it has, I think, no rival, simply because there is no other critic with the linguistic and technical knowledge to have attempted it. And it is not merely a work which provides useful and otherwise inaccessible information on so many poets of importance (in half a dozen languages); it also offers a theory of modern poetry' - Frank Kermode'There cannot be many readers of poetry with Mr Hamburger's range: he is at home in French, German, English, Italian and Spanish. His knowledge extends to Portuguese and, via translations at least, to Polish and Russian verse... Used simply as a guide to the most important European and American poetry of the period from the 1880s to the present, this book has great value' - George Steiner, Sunday Times'Mr Hamburger... is not only a poet and critic but scholar as well, and these three often warring pursuits seem in him to live in harmony' - Times Literary Supplement'We have, in 'The Truth of Poetry', a profound contribution to modern aesthetics and, as an incidental bonus, a critical introduction to twentieth-century world poetry' - Times Educational Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 041634240X
• ISBN 13: 9780416342406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356