—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

Summer's in full swing. The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing and the flowers are in full bloom. But does the promise of sunny days fill you with delight or foreboding? These German poems ...

It is the translation by the octogenarian Australian poet Geoffrey Lehmann of a group of poems by Rilke, by common consent ...

For most university faculty members, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities means a chance to complete a lengthy research project. For Northwestern religion department chairwoman and ...

Like a few months' older "Five Songs Op. 13", so do the "Twelve Songs Op. 17" reflect Szymanowski's interest in Modernist German poetry. The titles themselves are indicative of the topics: love, the ...

A NORTH-East student has won a foreign language poetry contest. The Institute of Modern Languages Research, the British Museum and the German Academic Exchange Service challenged aspiring poets to ...

URSULA DUBA WAS 19 when her parents finally allowed her to leave Germany and visit her aunt in Belgium. The aunt arranged a blind date for her, and it was heaven on Earth. “We were dancing to ...

BERLIN — Late-night comedy sketches featuring a German song and a follow-up poem making fun of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have created a diplomatic rift, and left German Chancellor Angela ...

Another international controversy is building between Germany and Turkey over, of all things, a poem. Last month on German TV, the comedian Jan Boehmermann performed a crude poem mocking Turkey's ...