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Johannes Bobrowski is widely regarded as the most important German poet of this century. He began to write poetry on the Eastern Front in 1941 where, as a 24-year-old German soldier in Kaunas, he saw the "slavering wolves" of the SS drive the "grey processions" over a hill to death. A prisoner-of-war in Russia until 1949, he returned to Berlin to write with a purpose: to inform his countrymen of the history and myths of Eastern Europe and to preserve the memory of his childhood home.

The poems in Shadow Lands reflect Bobrowski's hope, in the words of Michael Hamburger, "that he might succeed poetically in bearing witness to that vanished world," that is, the world of Eastern Germany before the war. With an almost surreal lyrical beauty, he evokes the pre-Christian era of the gods and heroes of the ancient Prussians.

The poems also resonate with the most eloquent and picturesque descriptions of Bobrowski's homeland - its rivers, its forests and quiet villages - ultimately leaving us with a sense of "the hiddenness of all perfect things." Personally intense and far-reaching, these poems have been treasured for their originality, their beauty, and their broad and lasting appeal.

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English
Pages
206

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Shadow lands: selected poems
1994, New Directions Pub. Corp.
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Shadow lands: selected poems
1984, Anvil Press Poetry
in English
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-202) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
New Directions paperbook ;, NDP788

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
831/.914
Library of Congress
PT2603.O13 S45 1994, PT2603.O13S45 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
206 p. ;
Number of pages
206

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1086069M
Internet Archive
shadowlandsselec0000bobr
ISBN 10
0811212769
LCCN
94009979
OCLC/WorldCat
30070859
Library Thing
1181488
Goodreads
2112816

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