Primal Vision : Selected Prose & Poetry
Overview
Gottfried Benn (1886-1957) occupies a position in modern German literature often compared to that of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in English. This volume presents a comprehensive anthology of the author's finest work-poetry (with the German originals en face), short stories, a scene from one of his plays, essays and autobiographical writings, including a unique insight into the German intellectual metamorphosis before, under and after Hitler. And in a long introduction, the editor, E. B. Ashton, places Benn in the perspective of recent German history and gives an account of his life--a dramatic and moving story in its own right. By profession a physician, Benn was fascinated by the philosophical aspects of many branches of science, and over the years he wrote a number of extraordinary essays in which the poet's intuitive vision was accorded the utmost imaginative freedom.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780811200080
- ISBN-10: 0811200086
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: January 1971
- Dimensions: 7.97 x 5.24 x 0.86 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 324
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