Review
?Annotated with scholarly tact, finely rendered into English... this selection from M?rike is a joy, in just harmony with its content.? (George Steiner, "Observer" (UK))"
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Product Description
A literary evocation of Mozart, this "novelle" is accompanied by translations of the poetry that has made Moerike a much-loved poet in Germany for a century and a half.
About the Author
Eduard Morike was born in Ludwigsburg in 1804. He was a Protestant pastor before teaching literature at a seminary in Stuttgart. He spent the last decade of his life in increasing solitude, keen to avoid the fame his writing had brought him.
David Luke is an Emeritus Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. His translation of Faust won the European Poetry Translation Prize.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.