Beschreibung:
Neil Donahue is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
New view of the prominent German poet, with new research on his activities during the Nazi period and his pre-1945 poetry.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Karl Krolow's Relation to the Past-- The Poetics of AmnesiaThe Early Career (1940-1943): The Writer and the RegimeBlüte und Boden: Inner Emigration in the Uncollected Poems (1940-1945)Cornerstone of a Career: Hochgelobtes, Gutes Leben! (1943)The Postwar Period: Trials and TribulationsA New Start (The Late Forties)Modernism in a New Key (The Fifties)Professions of an Apolitical Man (The Sixties)The Vanishing Point in History (The Seventies)Comparative ContextsWorks CitedIndex