Michael Hofmann (University of Florida Professor of English)

Messing about in Boats

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on the author's Clarendon Lectures, this volume studies four water-borne poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugenio Montale, and Karen Solie that each study a different aspect of 'the ship'.

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Produktdetails

• Clarendon Lectures in English
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780198848042
• ISBN-10: 0198848048
• Artikelnr.: 60041544

Autorenporträt

Michael Hofmann is Professor of English at the University of Florida. His poems, reviews, and essays have been published in the Guardian, London Review of Books, Modern Painters, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Poetry, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. He is the author of two collections of critical writing, Behind the Lines (2001) and Where Have You Been? (2014) and six books of poems, most recently, One Lark, One Horse (2018). He has edited selections of John Berryman, W.S. Graham, Robert Lowell, and Malcolm Lowry. He has translated some 80 books from German, poetry (Gottfried Benn, Günter Eich, Durs Grünbein), plays (Bertolt Brecht and Patrick Süskind), and fiction (all of Peter Stamm, most of Joseph Roth and Wolfgang Koeppen, large parts of Hans Fallada, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, and Wim Wenders, and single books by many more, including Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun, Herta Müller, and Jakob Wassermann).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Rainer Maria Rilke: 'Emigranten-Schiff, Neapel'
2: Arthur Rimbaud: 'Le Bateau Ivre', 'The Drunken Ship'
3: Eugenio Montale: 'Barche sulla Marna', 'Boats on the Marne'
4: Karen Solie: 'The World'
Conclusion
Bibliography and Notes