The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry was published this month. I haven’t seen it yet myself, but the table of contents looks interesting:
- Exploring the poem
- Poetic roles in early song-lyrics
- Devotional poetry
- The rhetoric of passion
- Classical Antiquity and modern experience
- Romantic poetry and the problem of lyric unity
- The self and the senses
- Modernism and difficulty
- Poetry after Auschwitz
- The strain of political poetry
- Working on the text
- Writing up your close reading
- German metrics
