Poems and Prose: A Bilingual Edition (European Poetry Classics)

Poems and Prose

GEORG TRAKL

Poems and Prose A Bilingual Edition

Translated from the German and with an introduction and notes by

Alexander Stillmark

~ Northwestern University Press ~ Evanston, Illinois

Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois 60208-4170 Published 2005 by Northwestern University Press. Translation, introduction, and notes copyright ©

2001 by Alexander Stillmark.

First published 2001 by Libris.

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ISBN 0-8101-2006-2

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Xl

Translator's note

XXI

POEMS AND PROSE POEMS

Poems / Gedichte The Ravens / Die Raben Amid Red Foliage Full of Guitars / 1m roten Laubwerk voll Guitarren Music in the Mirabell / Musik im Mirabell Dusk in Winter / Winterdammerung Rondclct/Rondcl The Beautiful City / Die schone Stadt In Winter I / 1m Winter I At Eventide My Heart / Zu Abend mein Herz Melancholy / Melancholie Transfigured Autumn / Verklarter Herbst Forest Nook / Winkel am Wald In an Old Family Album / In ein altes Stammbuch Mankind / Menschheit De Profundis / De Profundis Trumpets / Trompeten The Rats / Die Ratten Psalm I / Psalm I Songs of the Rosary / Rosenkranzlieder Nearness of Death / Nahe des Todes Amen / Amen Decay / Verfall In the Village / 1m Dorf Evening Song / Abendlied Three Glances into an Opal / Drei Blicke in einen Opal Night Song / Nachtlied Helian / Helian

2/3 2/3

4/5 4/5 ~7

6/7 8/9 10/11 10/11 10/11 12/13 12/13 14/15 14/15 16/17 16/17 16/17 20/21 20/21 20/21 22/23 22/23 26/27 26/27 30/31 30/31

Sebastian in a Dream / Sebastian im Traum Childhood / Kindheit

38/39

Song ofHours / Stundenlied On a Journey / Unterwegs Landscape / Landschaft To the Boy Elis / An den Knaben Elis Elis / Elis Hohenburg / Hohenburg Sebastian in a Dream / Sebastian im Traum By the Moor / Am Moor In Spring / 1m Friihling Evening in Lans / Abend in Lans By the Monchsberg / Am Monchsberg Kaspar Hauser Song / Kaspar Hauser Lied At Night / Nachts Transformation of Evil / Verwandlung des Bosen

38/39 40/41 42/43 4 2/43

44145 46/47 48/49 52/53 52/53 52/53 54/55 54/55 56/57 56/57

The Autumn ofthe Lonely / Der Herbst des Einsamen In the Park / 1m Park A Winter's Eve / Ein Winterabend The Accursed / Die Verfluchten Sonja / Sonja Along / Entlang Autumn Soul / Herbstseele Afra/ Afra The Autumn of the Lonely / Der Herbst des Einsamen

60/61 60/61 62/63 64/ 65 64/ 6 5 66/67 68/69 68/69

Sevenfold Song ofDeath / Siebengesang des Todes Peace and Silence / Ruh und Schweigen Anif / Anif Birth / Geburt Decline / Untergang To One Who Died Young / An einen Friihverstorbenen Spiritual Twilight / Geistliche Dammerung Song ofthe Western World / Abendlandisches Lied Transfiguration / Verklarung Fohn/Fohn The Wanderer / Der Wanderer Karl Kraus / Karl Kraus To Those Grown Silent / An die Verstummten

70/71 70/71 72 /73

74175 74175 76 /77 76 /77 78 /79 80/81 80/81 82/83 82/83

Passion / Passion Sevenfold Song of Death / Siebengesang des Todes Winter Night / Winternacht Song ofthe Recluse / Gesang des Abgeschiedenen In Venice / In Venedig Limbo / Vorholle The Sun / Die Sonne Song of a Captive Blackbird / Gesang einer gefangenen Amsel Summer / Sommer Summer's Decline / Sommersneige Year / Jahr The West / Abendland Springtime ofthe Soul II / Friihling der Seele II In the Dark / 1m Dunkel Song ofthe Recluse / Gesang des Abgeschiedenen Dream and Derangement / Traum und Umnachtung

88/89 88/89 90/9 1 92/93 92/93

94195 94195 96/97 98/99 100/101 102/103 102/103

Poems from Der Brenner, 1914/15 In Hellbrunn / In Hellbrunn The Heart / Das Herz Sleep / Der Schlaf The Thunderstorm / Das Gewitter Evening / Der Abend Night / Die Nacht Melancholy / Die Schwermut Homeward Journey / Die Heimkehr Lament I / Klage I Surrender to Night / Nachtergebung In the East / 1m Osten Lament II / Klage II Grodek / Grodek Revelation and Perdition / Offenbarung und Untergang Other poems published in Trakl's lifetime St Peter's Churchyard / St.-Peters-Friedhof Night Soul / Nachtseele

110/111 110/111 112/113 114/115 116/117 116/117 118/119 120/121 122/123 122/123 124/125 124/125 126/127 126/127

Poems, 1912-1914, published posthumously Song of Lament / Klagelied

13 6 / 137

A carpet wherein the suffering landscape pales / Bin Teppich, darein die leidende LandschaJt verblaflt Delirium / Delirium By the Rim of an Ancient Well / Am Rand eines alten Brunnens

The silence ofthe dead loves the ancient garden / Die Stille der Verstorbenen liebt den alten Garten The blue night has risen gently upon our brows / Die blaue Nacht ist sanft aufunsren Stirnen aufgegangen a our dwelling in the silence ofthe twilit garden / a das Wohnen in der Stille des dammernden Gartens

13 6 / 137 13 8 / 139 13 8 / 139 140/141 140/141 140/141

At Evening / Am Abend To Novalis / An Novalis To Novalis / An Novalis To Novalis / An Novalis Hour of Grief / Stunde des Grams To Lucifer / An Luzifer

146/147

Red faces devoured by Night / Rate Gesichter verschlang die Nacht

146/147

142/ 143 142/ 143 144/145 144/145 144/145

Homecoming / Heimkehr Reverie / Traumerei Psalm II/Psalm II Autumn Homecoming / Herbstliche Heimkehr Decline / Neige Season of Life / Lebensalter The Sunflowers / Die Sonnenblumen

So grave 0 summer twilight/ So ernst 0 Sommerdammerung

146/147 148/149 150/151 15 0 / 151 15 2 / 153 152/153 15 2/ 153 154/155

PROSE

Dreamland Barabbas Mary Magdalene Desolation

159 162

Notes Index of English first lines and titles Index of German first lines and titles

171

164 167

181 187

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INTRODUCTION