German Love Poetry



This course focuses on love poems from three centuries; from Goethe to Enzensberger, from Droste-Hülshoff bis Mayröcker. One focus will be on “poetic couples” who engaged in the dialogue of love via poems: Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler; Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.



Required Texts: Es schlug mein Herz.” Deutsche Liebeslyrik. Hg. Hans Wagener. (reclam, 2005)