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Paul Celan: Studies in His Early Poetry scrutinizes the influences detectable in the poems written during 1938-48. Among German writers, Büchner, Goethe, Gottfried von Strassburg, Gryphius, Mörike, the poet of the Nibelungenlied, Novalis, Rilke, and Trakl all provided motifs that, often repeated, make for a dense network inviting attention to the self-referential and self-revealing patterns in Celan's early work. In addition, there are many poems that contain motifs gleaned from Greek mythology and/or biblical data. These references, on occasion quite clear, more often so obscure as to be haz Paul Celan: Studies in His Early Poetry; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface: Celan's Early Years; Introduction; I: The Beginnings, Part; II: The Beginnings, Part II; III: Poppies, Forgetfulness, Dreams, Rebels; IV: Things (Quasi- ) Medieval; V: War; VI: The Mother Figure; VII: On the Way to Todesfuge; VIII: Poetic Devices and Their Consequences; Appendix: The Lithographs in Der Sand aus den Urnen; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of German Celan Poems Cited
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