Joachim von der Goltz, Deutsche Sonette [German Sonnets]

Harriet Carlton (Duke University); Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Ed. by Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1916

Places

Germany (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Sonnet

Resources

The First World War, during which a cumulative 40 million soldiers and civilians were killed or died prematurely (Mougel 2011: 1), gave rise to many powerful works of art and literature related to war. Poetry from the First World War constitutes a “key element in the socio-cultural memory of the war and its dead” (Minogue and Palmer 2018: 9). It can be divided into two major schools of thought: patriotic war poetry and anti-war poetry. War poets can further be viewed in terms of those who experience a war first-hand in any capacity—whether as a soldier, observer, or victim—and those who do not. Poems written about the First World War generally follow a pattern of emphasizing “the initial idealism and …

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Citation: Carlton, Harriet, Jill E. Twark. "Deutsche Sonette". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 August 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40575, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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