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10 best books like Hymns to the Night (Novalis): Selected Poems and Fragments, Selected Poetry, Poems of Paul Celan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Poems of Heinrich Heine, On a Theatre of Marionettes, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, The Book of Images, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems

Selected Poems and Fragments
AuthorFriedrich Hölderlin
ISBN0140424164
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology...
Selected Poetry
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN0140424563
Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical, and the works selected in this volume represent more than sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus, ' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervor, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation...
Poems of Paul Celan
AuthorPaul Celan
ISBN0856462659
"In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped...
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
AuthorLord Byron
ISBN1406800112
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a long poem about a traveling young man who journeys across the world to combat his disillusionment with his own society. Since the title character is a "childe", it means he was a noble who forgoes his destiny back home for the exciting unknown. It's also eerily similar...
Poems of Heinrich Heine
AuthorHeinrich Heine
ISBN1440050783
Excerpt from Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Poems, Selected and Translated

But it needs something more than a list of antitheses to understand this restless genius, a confusing figure who has been paired with such names as Catullus, Aristophanes, Burns, Rabelais,...
On a Theatre of Marionettes
AuthorHeinrich von Kleist
ISBN0902015265
Kleist's essay about dolls/puppets/marionette theatre (depends on what translation you're looking at) is one of my favorite writings EVER. it's short and crisp. though i did like the translation in the "Kleist Collected Works" more. here's an online translation, the one cited above is better:

http://www.southerncrossreview.org/9/...

oh...
Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte
AuthorAdelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamissos 1814 erschienene phantastische Erzählung 'Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte' handelt von einem sanften, weltfremden Jüngling, der einem rätselhaften Mann in einem grauen Rock seinen Schatten verkauft. Er ist jedoch außerstande, den so erworbenen Reichtum...
Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann
AuthorIngeborg Bachmann
ISBN0939010844
Darkness Spoken gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann’s two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first time, as well as 25 poems never before published in German. Bachmann is considered one of the most important...
The Book of Images
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
I would like to step out of my heart’s door
and be under the great sky.
— Rilke, “Lament”
A myriad of shades, a plethora of images, the juxtaposition of sentiments which soothe and unsettle. A miscellany of visuals and existential hues. A mélange of nuances and distinctive sounds....
Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems
AuthorFernando Pessoa
ISBN0802136273
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) - a poet who lived most his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there - has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Now Richard Zenith has collected in a single volume all the major poetry of...
Lenz
AuthorGeorg Büchner
ISBN0974968021
Lenz, Georg Büchner’s visionary exploration of an 18th century playwright’s descent into madness, grew in part out of Alsatian pastor Johann Oberlin’s journal, which is translated here in its entirety for the first time. Lenz is a dispassionate account on the nervous system of a schizophrenic,...
Last Love Poems
AuthorPaul Éluard
ISBN0976844931


Man Ray – Nusch Éluard - 1934 | Trasdós - http://ow.ly/OikpP


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Y tu boca que enmudece puede probar lo imposible.


Amar. Amar para olvidar que se amó. Peregrino de emociones, Paul Éluard ofrece su palabra como testimonio de sentimiento. También...
"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare
AuthorJohn Clare
ISBN0374528691
Hail, humble Helpstone ...
Where dawning genius never met the day,
Where useless ignorance slumbers life away
Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries
Above the vulgar and the vain to rise.
--from "Helpstone"

"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology...
Canti
AuthorGiacomo Leopardi
ISBN0374235031
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011

Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways....
The Poems of François Villon
AuthorFrançois Villon
ISBN0874512360
Can't believe I haven't rated this one yet... Villon is Rimbaud and Baudelaire and Poe and Genet a half-millennium before those beloved brethren in sin. Villon is the bloodied words of God writ on the Satanic chasuble. Villon is the banished poet-murderer-thief haunting the interstices of a dead-lily...
Selected Poems
AuthorRené Char
ISBN0811211924
The Selected Poems of Rene Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poets wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett,...
The Golden Pot and Other Tales
AuthorE.T.A. Hoffmann
ISBN0192837230
Hoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, focuses on those stories in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact...
The Slavery of Death
AuthorRichard Beck
ISBN1620327775
According to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to "break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described as...
The Musician's Quest
AuthorGeorge MacDonald
ISBN0871234440
Tonight I finished reading my Scottish friend David Jack's English translation of George MacDonald's Robert Falconer, which was originally published in 1868. David signed my copy of it at The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford, England on a beautiful cold snowy St. Patrick's day. David also wrote a fine...
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