
Surrender to Night
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A new translation by acclaimed poet Will Stone of the visionary Austrian poet Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl is recognised as one of the most important European poets of the twentieth century. His visionary poetry has influenced not only later poets but also composers, artists and filmmakers. The full measure of Trakl's genius can be appreciated in this extensive Collected Poems, intuitively translated by poet Will Stone, which features the key collections including the posthumously published Sebastian in Dream, 1915. Supplementary to these are the poems originally published in the literary journal Der Brenner as well as a discerning selection of Trakl's uncollected work.
Trakl's trademark tonal qualities, his melancholy stamp, the often apocalyptic but eerily beautiful language gradually infect the reader. His poems are awash with images, symbolic colours and signs; mysterious dream-like figures appear and vanish, and an alternative world is born out of the unconscious. The most sensitive observer of Trakl's poetry was his contemporary, Rainer Maria Rilke, who concluded: 'For me, the Trakl poem is an object of sublime existence...'
Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was born in Salzburg, Austria, and spent his youth there. He began writing poetry at age 13 and later became apprentice to a pharmacist in Salzburg, then went on to take a degree in pharmacy at the University of Vienna. Following his father's death in 1910 Trakl enlisted in the army, eventually working in the military hospital in Innsbruck. With the outbreak of World War I, Trakl volunteered as a medical orderly and attended soldiers at the Eastern Front in Galicia. After the battle of Grodek, he suffered a mental collapse and was confined to a military hospital in Kraków where he died of a cocaine overdose.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Poems
- Acknowledgements
- Georg Trakl (1887-1914): A Brief Biography
- Approaching Silence: The Poetry of Georg Trakl
- Translator's Note
- Poems, 1913
- The Ravens
- The Young Maid
- Romance to Night
- In Red Foliage Filled with Guitars.
- Music in the Mirabell
- Melancholy of Evening
- Winter Dusk
- Rondel
- Benediction to Women
- The Beautiful City
- In an Abandoned Room
- Thunderstorm Evening
- Evening Muse
- Dream of Evil
- Spiritual Song
- In Autumn
- Towards Evening My Heart
- The Peasants
- All Souls
- Melancholy
- Soul of Life
- Transfigured Autumn
- Forest Nook
- In Winter
- In an Old Album
- Metamorphosis
- Little Concert
- Mankind
- The Walk
- De Profundis
- Trumpets
- Dusk
- Smiling Spring
- Suburb in the Föhn
- The Rats
- Dejection
- Whispered in the Afternoon
- Psalm
- Rosary Songs
- Decay
- In the Homeland
- An Autumn Evening
- Human Wretchedness
- In the Village
- Song of Evening
- Three Glances into an Opal
- Night Song
- Helian
- Sebastian in Dream, 1915
- Childhood
- Song of Hours
- On the Way
- Landscape
- To the Boy Elis
- Elis
- Hohenburg
- Sebastian in Dream
- On the Moor
- In Spring
- Evening in Lans
- On the Mönchsberg
- Kaspar Hauser Song
- By Night
- Transformation of Evil
- In the Park
- A Winter Evening
- The Cursed
- Sonja
- Along
- Autumn Soul
- Afra
- Autumn of the Lonely
- Rest and Silence
- Anif
- Birth
- Decline
- To One Who Died Young
- Spiritual Dusk
- Western Song
- Transfiguration
- Föhn
- The Wayfarer
- Karl Kraus
- To the Silenced
- Passion
- Seven-song of Death
- Winter Night
- In Venice
- Limbo
- The Sun
- Song of a Captive Blackbird
- Summer
- Close of Summer
- Year
- The West
- Springtime of the Soul
- In Darkness
- Song of the Departed
- Dream and Derangement
- Poems Published in Der Brenner, 1914-15
- In Hellbrunn
- The Heart
- Sleep
- The Thunderstorm
- Evening
- Night
- Melancholy (II)
- The Homecoming
- Lament
- Surrender to Night
- In the East
- Lament (II)
- Grodek
- Revelation and Downfall
- Uncollected Poems and Prose
- The Three Ponds in Hellbrunn
- St Peter's Churchyard
- A Spring Evening
- In an Old Garden
- Evening Roundelay
- Night Soul
- Desolation
- De Profundis (II)
- At the Cemetery
- Sunny Afternoon
- Aeon
- Dream of an Afternoon
- Luminous Hour
- Childhood Memory
- An Evening
- Season
- In Wine Country
- The Dark Valley
- Summer Dawn
- In Moonlight
- Fairy Tale
- Lament (III)
- Springtime of the Soul (II)
- Western Twilight
- Daydreaming at Evening
- Winter Walk in A-minor
- Ever Darker
- December
- (Untitled)
- Delirium
- At the Edge of Old Waters
- Along Walls
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- In the Evening
- Judgement
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- To Novalis
- Nocturnal Lament
- To Johanna
- Melancholy (III)
- To Lucifer
- Daydreaming
- Psalm (II)
- Age
- The Sunflowers
- Chronology
- About the Publisher
- Copyright
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