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The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism (Hardcover)
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The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal became famous at the age of sixteen for
poetry and lyrical drama of almost uncanny facility and beauty. Yet
he ceased to write lyric poetry almost completely in the early
1900s and his fictional farewell to poetry, the so-called 'Chandos
Letter', is a paradigm for the uncertainty and instability of
Modernism. The verse of the 1890s, the 'lyrical decade', is
generally felt to have been enhanced by his interest in the French
Symbolists and the Symbolist-inspired tutelage of Stefan George.
However, with analyses of verse and prose poetry from the 1890s,
this book argues that Symbolism was a fundamentally inhibiting
influence, ultimately responsible for the crisis in Hofmannsthal's
poetic writing. 'Das Gesprach uber Gedichte', written soon after
'Ein Brief', in 1903, makes it clear how the crisis was a personal
one and does not imply the general impossibility of future writing,
as is often suggested. As a theory of poetry, it acknowledges the
importance of French Symbolism but suggests how it was ultimately a
dummy aesthetic that had previously overlaid and stifled
Hofmannsthal's own Romantic leanings.
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