Name: Poems
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Author: Hermann Hesse
ISBN: 9780374526412

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hermann Hesse

Translated by

James Wright

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN

0374526419

ISBN13

9780374526412

Edition No.

Synopsis "Poems "

Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume--filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons--that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.

Hermann Hesse

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Herman Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw. He followed professions as diverse as a clergyman and a mechanic, but with the publication of his first novel, Peter Camenzind (1904), he managed to establish himself as a writer. His literary work placed him among the most important authors of the 20th century. His most notable titles are: Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), and The Glass Bead Game (1943). Among many other distinctions, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. He died in 1962, at the age of 85 in Montagnola.

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