Across the land and the water : selected poems, 1964-2001 / by W.G. Sebald ; translated by Iain Galbraith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001.

Contributor:

Galbraith, Iain, translator.

Standardized Title:

Über das Land und das Wasser. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001.

Sebald, W. G.

Poets, German--20th century.

Poets, German.

German poetry--20th century.

German poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxv, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hamish Hamilton, 2011.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

This volume brings together poems published during Sebald's lifetime with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. Arranged chronologically, from work published during his student days in the 1960s to the longer narratives he produced during the 1980s, the poems touch on the themes which were closest to Sebald - nature and history; forgetting and remembering; borders, journeys and landscapes - and express in short, lyrical form the same distinctive insight and sensitivity that shaped his great works of prose fiction.

Contents:

'For how hard it is'

'A colony of allotments'

'Smoke will stir'

'The intention is sealed'

Nymphenburg

Epitaph

Schattwald in Tyrol

Remembered triptych of a journey from Brussels

Life is beautiful

Matins for G

Winter poem

Lines for an album

Bleston. a mancunian cantical

I. Fête nocturne

II. Consensus omnium

III. The sound of music

IV. lingua mortua

V. Perdu dans ces filaments

Didsbury

Giulietta's birthday

Time signal at twelve

Children's song

School Latin

Votive tablet

Legacy

Sarassani

Day's residue

Border crosser

Lay of ill luck

Memorandum of the divan

Il ritorno d'Ulisse

For a northern reader

Florean exercise

Scythian journey

Saumur, selon Valéry

L'instruction du roy

Festifal

Pneumatological prose

Comic opera

Timetable

Unexplored

Elizabethan

Baroque psalter

The Year before Last

The Year before Last

A Waltz Dream

Donderdag

The secrets

On 9 June 1904

Ninety years later

In Bamberg

Marienbad Elegy

At the edge

And always

How silvery

Somewhere

In the sleepless

Room 645

My ICE Rail-Planner

One Sunday in Autumn 94

Calm November weather

Unchanged for years

In the Summer of 1836

In Alfermée

On the eve of

In the Paradise Landscape

Appendix

I remember

October heat wave.

ISBN:

9780241144732

0241144736

OCLC:

751733242

Publisher Number:

99945890840