Author: Peucker, Brigitte
Title: Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1987). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, x,232 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Lyric Descent: Tradition & Authority; The Poetry of Transgression: Eichendorff's Venus & the Voices in the Ground; The Poetry of Regeneration: Droste-Hulshoff's Ophelia as Muse; The Poetry of Transformation: Rilke's Orpheus & the Fruit of Death; The Poetry of Repetition: Trakl's Narrow Bridge.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, German Poetry, Romantic Literature, Poetics, Romanticism, R.M. Rilke, Georg Trakl, Droste-Hulshoff, J. von Eichendorff