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A Michael Hamburger Reader
For many years the Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll was a friend and admirer of the English poet, critic and translator Michael Hamburger. After Hamburger's death in 2007, O'Driscoll determined to compile a 'Reader', putting together representative selections from Hamburger's varied writings. The book contains, as well as generous selections from his poetry and translations, extracts from his autobiography and critical essays covering a wide range of poetry and fiction in German and English. Dennis O'Driscoll completed his selection shortly before his untimely death aged 58 at Christmas, 2012. His book is a labour of love on the part of one distinguished poet for the work of another. It will be an essential work for readers of modern poetry and German literature since Holderlin.
Michael Hamburger in Conversation with Peter Dale
LITERATURE, CRITICISM, MEMOIRS, LETTERS / POETRY
The Truth of Poetry
A critical examination of the nature and function of modern poetic expression
Michael Hamburger
Tacita Dean's portrait of the poet and translator Michael Hamburger was filmed, at his home in rural Suffolk, in the last year of his life.Set against muted autumn colours, and with Hamburger performing an evocative, anecdotal inventory of the harvest from his apple orchard, the piece is a bittersweet reminder of time's passing that deftly captures, and quietly honours, an exemplary 20th century literary figure.Featuring a new essay by Brian Dillon, Dean's own notes on the making of the project, and a transcript of its central voiceover monologue, this publication looks back at the film, one that takes its place alongside a number of studies by Dean of other major creative and artistic figures, and one that remains one of her most enduring and affecting achievements.
Unrecounted
This collection of poems and lithographs reflects the long artistic friendship between W.G. Sebald and the German artist Jan Peter Tripp. Their shared concerns speak of moments salvaged from time passing, of memory and remembrance.
East German Poetry
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The Rings of Saturn
‘Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century’ The Times What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human. ‘A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas... Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a novel?), and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tears’ Teju Cole, Guardian
Reason and Energy
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Late
Tom just wanted to get his punishment over with—not that he felt he should be punished. Constantly being late isn't exactly his fault. He has to work if he wants to get his degree. His history professor doesn't seem to care, though. Now Tom has to trek to the other side of campus. Little did he know that his punishment might be his greatest reward. Maybe he should continue being late.
After Nature
After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz After Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and brilliant writing journey. In this long prose poem, Sebald introduces many of the themes that he explores in his subsequent books. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, each of the three distinct parts of After Nature give centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W.G. Sebald himself. 'A deeply intelligent book, but also a marvellously warm, exciting and compassionate one' Andrew Motion 'A début of rare poetic grandeur' Irish Times 'Astonishing...
