Poem and Fragments

Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924, and came to Britain as a child. He is one of our leading poets and critics, as well as the foremost contemporary translator of German poetry. His Collected Poems 1941-1994 and several later books of poetry are published by Anvil, as is his Poems of Paul Celan, for which he was awarded the EC's first European Translation Prize in 1992. Anvil has also published his selections from the poetry of Goethe, Rilke and Peter Huchel and his critical study of modern poetry, The Truth of PoetryHölderlin, Friedrich is the author of 'Poem and Fragments', published 1980 under ISBN 9780521297882 and ISBN 0521297885.