Studies in Modern German Literature

Crisis Imagery in the Works of Brentano, Lenau, Rilke, and T.S. Eliot

By: David B Dickens

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Hardcover | 1 December 1988

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Symbolic statement in poetry assumes many forms, from readily understood open symbols to private or closed ones with highly personal meanings. Negative spring, the poet's rejection of what has traditionally been a joyous time of year, makes such a personal statement. This book examines a number of examples of negative spring; it seeks to locate the sources of the attitude, to examine its implications, and to establish its reliability as an indicator of crisis or despair. Closer examination of it in the work of Clemens Brentano and T.S. Eliot discloses many suggestive and even surprising parallels.

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Negative Spring... is a meticulous, painstakingly researched attempt to analyze the striking poetic image of negative spring as an articulation of despair in selected works by Gryphius, Lenau, Brentano, Eliot, Rilke, and other European writers since the seventeenth century... Dickens' pursuit of the question of conscious influence versus unconscious tradition yields much that is useful to any comparatist or Germanist. (Klaus Phillips, Hollins College)

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