The Gentle Apocalypse: Truth and Meaning in the Poetry of Georg Trakl

by Richard Millington and Richard H. Millington

Through close readings of poems covering the span of Georg Trakl's lyric output, this study traces the evolution of his strangely mild and beautiful vision of the end of days.

Like much German-language poetry of the years preceding the First World War, the poems of Georg Trakl (1887-1914) are imbued with a sense of historical crisis, but what sets his work apart is the mildness and restraint of his images of universal disintegration. Trakl...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157113588X
• ISBN13: 9781571135889
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"