Böcker av George C. Schoolfield

A look at neglected aspects of the early career of one of the premier poets of the German language.

Presenting 32 works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927, Schoolfield throws light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.

A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as English allows.

Presents verse translations, with original texts on facing pages, of representative lyrics by ninety-nine poets of the German Baroque. An extensive introduction discusses the Baroque culture of the German-language realm and brief biographies of the poets conclude the volume.

A survey of the literary treatment of musicians in German novels and novellas beginning with the Romantics and ending with Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. Schoolfield explores the work of a large selection of writers, including Hoffmann, Tieck, Kleist, Brentano, Grillparzer, Werfel and Hesse among many others.

Illuminates the major aspects of the works of Germany's greatest 20th-century poet.

The poems of Elmer Diktonius place him in the forefront of literary expressionism. Schoolfield provides the uninitated reader with a biographical and critical overview of Diktonius's life and work and calls attention to his artistic triumphs, defeats, and contradictions.