The Gentle Apocalypse – Truth and Meaning in the Poetry of Georg Trakl Hardback

The Gentle ApocalypseTruth and Meaning in the Poetry of Georg Trakl\nAuthor(s): Richard Millington\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781571135889, 978-1571135889\nSynopsis\nThrough close readings of poems covering the span of Georg Trakl's lyric output, this study traces the evolution of his strangely mild and beautiful vision of the end of days.\n\nLike much German-language poetry of the years preceding the First World War, the poems of Georg Trakl [tel] are imbued with a sense of historical crisis, but what sets his work apart is the mildness and restraint of his images of universal disintegration. Trakl typically couched his vision of the end of days in images of migrating birds, abandoned houses, and closing eyelids, making his poetry at once apocalyptic, rustic, and intimate. The argument made in this study is that this vision amounts to a unitary worldview with tightly interwoven affective, ethical, socia.