The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 June 2000
- ISBN 9780198160038
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages388 pages
- Size 224x146x27 mm
- Weight 576 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) 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. This study suggests that his early interest in the works of the French Symbolists - above all of Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé - had an inhibiting effect on his own poetry and contributed to the famous 'Chandos crisis' in 1902.
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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 Gespräch über 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.
By the end of this fine book we have been privileged to explore Hofmannsthal's hesitancies and triumphs, seen him both as a child of his time and a frequently agonized seeker after his own identity. We have also been conducted down fascinating by-lanes to re-assess the poet's forebears and contemporaries with the most illuminating results. We have been compelled also to re-interpret any preconceptions we may have had about the 'symbolist' movement
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Mapping the terrain: Symbolism in Vienna in the early 1890s
Form and identity: Hofmannsthal and the Symbolist aesthetic
'Symbolismus: Meine Definitionen': early poems and the presence of Stefan George
The consequences of Symbolism: hesitations, problems and a solution
Taking stock: 'Das Gespräch über Gedichte'
Postscript and conclusion: Hofmannsthal and Rimbaud
Notes
Translations
Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Index
