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

by Richard Millington and Richard H. Millington

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 typically couched his vision of the end of days in images of migrating birds, abandoned houses, and closing eyelids, making his poetry at once apocalyptic, rustic, and intimate. The...

• 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"