Beskrivning
The limits of the sphere of dream,
The bounds of true and false, are past.
Lead us on, thou wandering Gleam,
Lead us onward far and fast,
To the wide, desert waste.
Der Tod is the second volume in our series of books exploring the poetry of death, transience, and transition with a focus on the nineteenth century (but not only!). While the first volume, Oh Death!, is an anthology of English poetry, here we gather English translations of German poets, edited by Claudio Rocchetti, along with the german original texts.
During the 1760s and 1770s, Germany witnessed the rise of the Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”), this is the starting point of this anthology, exploring the many developments of the German movement, from primitive and fantastic forms of literature such as folktale and romance to the most modern anticipations.
Featuring poetry by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Matthias Claudius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouque, Ludwig Uhland, August von Platen-Hallermünde, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Heinrich Heine, and Friedrich Nietzsche, translated into English by Charles Timothy Brooks, Gustav Mathieu, John Storer Cobb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Guy Stern, Charles Lamb, W.W. Skeat, Richard Garnett, James Steele, and Walter Kaufmann.
With illustrations by Marcello Crescenzi and edited by Claudio Rocchetti.
- Languages: English / German
- Hardcover bound in black Fedrigoni Imitlin
- 120-gram red Endpapers
- Printed on 115 g wood-free, age-resistant Arena Ivory Rough paper
- Sewn book block
- Red ribbon marker and Headbands
Black Letter Press is a small independent publisher located close to Hannover in Northern Germany, founded in 2018 in Turin, with the publication of Giambattista della Porta’s Natural Magick. BLP specializes in the revival of rare and antique books on a broad range of topics, including the sciences and history of science, poetry, occult philosophy, art, curious and unusual literature, and more. Their mission is to do these historical texts justice, publishing books that are fine and beautiful, yet remaining affordable and accessible.
