Bøger udgivet af Cedar Springs Books

When Munich-based poet Maria Luise Weissmann (1899-1929) died unexpectedly at the age of thirty, her peers on the German literary scene knew that the world had lost a poet of great promise-and one whose passing gave as much cause for grief, Otto Heuschele noted, as the recent death of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Influenced by Hofmannsthal and Rilke both, Weissmann spoke with a voice that also recalled-in its formal restraint yet vulnerable candor-that of her American contemporary Edna St. Vincent Millay, though one distinctively her own. Her subjects were wide-ranging-saints, prophets, animals wild and domestic, characters from classic literature such as Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe, the modern city, nature, and love-and her treatment of them was, by turns, solemn, witty, and profound. This volume provides, for the very first time, a substantial offering of her poems in an English version.

The poems and prose in this selection show Stefan Zweig at his lyrical best. Even the sensational title story, in which a heat-crazed hotel guest is consumed by his lust for a younger woman, is finally rhapsodic. All in all, these works demonstrate that Zweig's sensibility was, first and foremost, that of a poet.

Slipping snugly into a knapsack, this book features poems on the subject of wandern ("wandering") by such German Romantics as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludwig Tieck, Joseph von Eichendorff, Eduard Mörike, Nikolaus Lenau, and a host of others. The wisdom offered herein should inspire anyone about to embark on (or simply ponder) a long walking tour or merely a day hike. It is ideal for all who seek beauty, peace, and rejuvenation amid the wonders of God's creation.