
Footprints
Poems Selected and Translated by Anthony Mortimer (Dual-Language Edition)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer(Author)
Alma Classics (Publisher)
Published on 23. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-84749-526-6 (ISBN)
Description
The most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is regarded as a crucial figure in the transition of German-language poetry from the Romanticism of Heine, Novalis and Eichendorff to the Symbolism of Rilke and Stefan George.
In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images - high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers - to present his own symbolic world with a vividness and intensity that few poets can match. In these sensitive and accurate versions by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer, Meyer's achievement is available to anglophone readers for the first time.
In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images - high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers - to present his own symbolic world with a vividness and intensity that few poets can match. In these sensitive and accurate versions by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer, Meyer's achievement is available to anglophone readers for the first time.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Alma Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
175 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84749-526-6 (9781847495266)
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Persons
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-98) was a Swiss poet and historical novelist. He is best remembered today for narrative ballads such as 'Feet in the Fire'.