Book Details
- Paperback
- 476 pages
- ISBN 978-0-856463-12-9
Publisher Anvil Press
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Since 1941 Michael Hamburger has created a distinctive body of work. Collected Poems 1941-1994 reflects more than half a century’s dedication to poetry and a consistent engagement with both the natural and the human world.
Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924, and came to Britain as a child. He has taught widely in America and Britain and is the outstanding contemporary translator and critic of German literature. His awards include the German Federal Republic’s Goethe Medal in 1986 for services to German literature. Anvil publishes his critical work The Truth of Poetry and several of his translations, including editions of Goethe, Hölderlin, Rilke and Poems of Paul Celan, which received the EC’s European Translation Prize in 1990. His poem-sequence Late appeared in 1997.
Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924, and came to Britain as a child. He has taught widely in America and Britain and is the outstanding contemporary translator and critic of German literature. His awards include the German Federal Republic’s Goethe Medal in 1986 for services to German literature. Anvil publishes his critical work The Truth of Poetry and several of his translations, including editions of Goethe, Hölderlin, Rilke and Poems of Paul Celan, which received the EC’s European Translation Prize in 1990. His poem-sequence Late appeared in 1997.
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