| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 502 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Poems. Ghazal (1891) / translated by Stephen Yenser ; An experience (1892) ; Stanzas in terza rima (1895) ; The both of them (1896) ; Ballad of the outer life (1896) ; We went along a way (1897) ; Three epigrams (1898) ; In memory of the actor Mitterwurzer (1898) / translated by J.D. McClatchy -- Fiction. The tale of night six hundred and seventy-two (1895) / translated by Michael Henry Heim ; A tale of the cavalry (1898) / translated by Mary Hottinger -- Essays. The letter of Lord Chandos (1902) ; Moments in Greece (1908-1914) ; A memory of beautiful days (1908) ; Shakespeare's kings and noblemen (1905) ; Balzac (1908) ; Sebastian Melmoth (1905) ; From the Book of friends (1922) / translated by Tania and James Stern -- Libretti. The cavalier of the rose, act I (1911) / translated by Christopher Holme -- Plays. The difficult man: a comedy in three acts (1921) / translated by Willa Muir ; The tower: a tragedy in five acts (second version, 1927) / translated by Alfred Schwarz |
| Summary |
Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays. The Whole Difference, which includes new translations as well as classic ones long out of print, is a fresh introduction to the enormous range of this extraordinary artist, and the most comprehensive collection of Hofmannsthal's writings in English. Selected and edited by t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929 -- Translations into English
|
| SUBJECT |
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929 -- Translations into English
|
|
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
|
|
POETRY -- European -- General.
|
| Genre/Form |
Translations
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018
|
| ISBN |
9781400829798 |
|
1400829798 |
|
1282157701 |
|
9781282157705 |
|
9786612157707 |
|
6612157704 |
|
