Today’s post is on Dr. Owen Ware’s exceptional new translation of Novalis’s novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, a key text in early Romanticism. In addition to a beautiful translation, the new edition includes clear, readable, and detailed critical materials to help new readers of Novalis gain the most from this extraordinary text. In this post, I ask Dr.Continue reading “Owen Ware on Novalis’s novel “Heinrich von Ofterdingen””
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Karoline von Günderrode, “The Prisoner and the Singer”
A version of the original German text can be found here. Rather than providing a new translation of the poem, I’ll send you to an existing one here. “The Prisoner and the Singer” was written in 1805 or 1806 and included in Günderrode’s third collection, Melete. The verses describe a singer who grants a prisoner’s request toContinue reading “Karoline von Günderrode, “The Prisoner and the Singer””
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