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Article: Jedes Gedicht ist das letzte': Briefwechsel.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2006
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Jedes Gedicht ist das letzte': Briefwechsel. By JOHANNES BOBROWSKI and MICHAEL HAMBURGER. Ed. by JOCHEN MEYER, with an essay by INGO SCHULZE. Marbach a.N.: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft. 2004. 178 pp. 16 [euro]. ISBN 3-937384-03-0.
This latest volume of texts from Bobrowski's Nachlass in Marbach reproduces all the correspondence between two poets from January 1963 to October 1965 on 72 pages with an editor's 7-page note, 71 pages of detailed commentary, and an 11-page appreciative essay. The letters reveal more about each writer's personal and professional concerns than about their literary techniques, and they convey mutual admiration that developed into deeper ...