I'm an Anglo who's been learning German since fall of last year. Does anyone have recommendations for wide-ranging German poetry anthologies, akin to Palgrave's Golden Treasury or Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse? Ideally lyrically focused and essentially "canonical", for lack of a better word.Ich freue mich auf eure Empfehlungen!
>not just getting complete works editions of various poetsISHYGDDT
I have the red Insel Verlag anthology lying around here which makes a good impression, every relevant poet should be in there. There's also the Echtermeyer which seems to be the "standard" anthology (for schools?) and regularly updated/changed with new editions. Your choice probably won't matter that much, as long it's long enough and doesn't focus too much on contemporary poetry.Old/Middle High German poems are also presented with translations in the Insel anthology and Echtermeyer. You can also preview both on Amazon... and now that I did the formatting of Echtermeyer sure looks nicer and more pleasant – especially the bilingual parts...And as an advice: Most Germans have a quite poor grasp of their own language, so don't expect texts of native speakers you encounter online to be correct. I remember that once, when I went through the archives, I found a native German who tried to correct a learner despite adding even more mistakes than he corrected, absolute embarassment... :(
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Has anyone read Die besten deutschen Gedichte by Reich-Ranicki? I remember his collections as hitting a good spot between being either too obscure or being just a top 100 Gymnasium teacher favorites compilationNormie-friendly, but not normie-made kinda
