Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2014
The course will explore the interplay between innovation and tradition
in German poetry from 1770 to the present, focusing on such topics as
originality and authenticity, difficulty and hermeticism, and poetic
responses to crisis. Authors include Goethe, Hölderlin, Heine, Mörike,
Droste, George, Rilke, Benn, and Celan.