Ballad of the Buried Life
Author(s)
Hagelstange, Rudolf
Salinger, Herman
Language
English; GermanAbstract
A news item concerning six German soldiers trapped for years in the army food storage bunker provided Rudolf Hagelstange with a plot and an effective symbol to express the tensions, emotions, and paradoxes of modern man's being. In this volume the poet Herman Salinger translates Hagelstange's poem into verse with the original German on facing pages. An introductory essay by Charles W. Hoffmann gives context on Hagelstange and the ballad.
Keywords
Poetry; German Studies; LiteraturePublisher
The University of North Carolina PressPublication date and place
Chapel Hill, 1962Series
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures,Classification
Poetry