Sergei Esenin is one of the most tragic Russian poets of the 20th century. It was he who expressed the tragedy, crying, confusion of the ancestral Russia, when in the seventeenth year the connection with its thousand-year history was interrupted. He is the most mysterious poet. A peasant son, for more than ten years (from the rapid entry into literature to the tragic death), he found himself in...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - a famous American poet, novelist, critic, journalist. His influence as a writer and poet on world literature is enormous: it is Charles Baudelaire, French symbolism and almost the entire Russian Silver Age. , the novel 'The Story of Arthur Gordon Pim', as well as a collection of short stories 'The System of Dr. Small and Professor Piria'. The book 'Raven' includes...

This book is dedicated to the Trojan prophetess Cassandra. Lesya Ukrainka was interested in the fortuneteller's personality, her psychology. Cassandra has the feelings of an ordinary person: she doubts and hesitates, seeks to find the truth, suffers and submits to her fate.

The incomparable Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) wrote her masterpiece, the drama-extravaganza 'Forest Song' in distant lands, when she missed her homeland very much. And to my dear Kolodyazhnyi, where 'on a moonlit night I ran alone into the forest and waited there for Mavka to appear to me. I was fascinated by this image for the rest of my life.' It is evident that this longing inspired the...

The emotional mood of Mandelstam's lyrics is full of what critics called 'mental discomfort'. And the accentuated simplicity of everyday trifles, from which he built his poetic reality, only emphasizes the longing and anxiety of an outstanding person who

Osip Mandelstam - one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century, essayist, translator, literary critic. His tragic fate was a reflection of the catastrophic events in the history of Russia. From student studies and the first publications of t

Bertolt Brecht in 100 Poems The anthology authorized by Bertolt Brecht: a cross-section of his entire lyrical work. This selection of poems, made by Wieland Herzfelde a few years before Brecht's death, has found an audience of millions since its first edition. It takes into account the entire extensive lyrical work of the great playwright, director and poet of the 20th century.

Ever since it was first published in 1984, this anthology of German poems has been one of the classics in Reclam Verlag's programme. It offers a deliberately short selection of excellent and representative poems by over 100 most important poets in the German language from a period of more than twelve centuries. It has been updated and expanded again and again, now with poems by Elke Erb, Ulrich...

In addition to candles, baubles and tinsel, they are essential tools for every successful Christmas celebration: poems by timeless classics (to be read under the tree!) and many contemporaries (it's nice that there's always good news). Happy holidays are guaranteed! Nebst Kerzen, Kugeln und Lametta gehören sie zum unverzichtbaren Rüstzeug für jedes gelungene Weihnachtsfest: Gedichte von...

A lyrical cross-section through the diversity of romanticism. The epoch was a heyday of poetry art. She turned to new themes, the fairytale, the night, longing, she developed new motifs such as forest solitude, moonlight and Loreley and aimed at the dissolution of the individual's boundaries in nature or in the universe. The selection ranges from the beginnings in Jena to late Romanticism, from...

He made his debut as child prodigy Loris, and very early on, at about twenty years of age, Hofmannsthal found his style in poetry. The famous poems that form the core of his ultimately small lyrical oeuvre, which is presented here in a selected edition, were composed in the mid-1890s.

In the course of his life Goethe wrote more than three thousand poems, apparently easy to understand, but also those of the highest linguistic and metaphorical complexity, poems in song-like strophic forms, in strict ancient meters or rhymeless poetry. With this lyrical work, which is exceptional in scope and importance, he actually created the German-language poem of the modern age.