Poems and Prose
A comprehensive English-language edition of verse by the Austrian poet\ An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valéry, and T. S. Eliot. Besides Rilke, his more famous admirers include Karl Kraus and Martin Heidegger. The distinctive tone of Trakl's work-especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein-is autumnal and melancholy. Trakl was writing at a time of spiritual and social...
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A comprehensive English-language edition of verse by the Austrian poetAn undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valéry, and T. S. Eliot. Besides Rilke, his more famous admirers include Karl Kraus and Martin Heidegger. The distinctive tone of Trakl's work-especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein-is autumnal and melancholy. Trakl was writing at a time of spiritual and social disintegration on the eve of the First World War, when personal values and perceptions tended to be subsumed in a more generalized anguish and exaltation. Neo-romantic, early modernist, his rich, vitally sensuous poetry can be seen to mark the transition from impressionism to expressionism, but at the same time transcends such categories. Trakl's poetry has previously only been available in English in short selections or in anthologies. This bilingual edition, the most comprehensive to date, gives readers the chance to get to know Trakl's work more fully than ever before.
The ravens2Amid red foliage full of guitars2Music in the mirabell4Dusk in winter4Rondelet6The beautiful city6In winter I8At eventide my heart10Melancholy10Transfigured autumn10Forest nook12In an old family album12Mankind14De profundis14Trumpets16The rats16Psalm I16Songs of the rosary20Nearness of death20Amen20Decay22In the village22Evening song26Three glances into an opal26Night song30Helian30Childhood38Song of hours38On a journey40Landscape42To the boy Elis42Elis44Hohenburg46Sebastian in a dream48By the moor52In spring52Evening in lans52By the monchsberg54Kaspar Hauser song54At night56Transformation of evil56In the park60A winter's eve60The accursed62Sonja64Along64Autumn soul66Afra68The autumn of the lonely68Peace and silence70Anif70Birth72Decline74To one who died young74Spiritual twilight76Song of the western world76Transfiguration78Fohn80The wanderer80Karl Kraus82To those grown silent82Passion82Sevenfold song of death84Winter night86In Venice88Limbo88The sun90Song of a captive blackbird92Summer92Summer's decline94Year94The west96Springtime of the soul II98In the dark100Song of the recluse102Dream and derangement102In Hellbrunn110The heart110Sleep112The thunderstorm114Evening116Night116Melancholy118Homeward journey120Lament I122Surrender to night122In the east124Lament II124Grodek126Revelation and perdition126St. Peter's churchyard132Night soul132Song of lament136A carpet wherein the suffering landscape pales136Delirium138By the rim of an ancient well138The silence of the dead loves the ancient garden140The blue night has risen gently upon our brows140O our dwelling in the silence of the twilit garden140At evening142To novalis142To novalis144To novalis144Hour of grief144To lucifer146Red faces devoured by night146Homecoming146Reverie148Psalm II150Autumn homecoming150Decline152Season of life152The sunflowers152So grave o summer twilight154Dreamland159Barabbas162Mary Magdalene164Desolation167
