 | Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle Subjects: George Stefan Anton 1868–1933 -- Friends and associates; George Stefan Anton 1868–1933 -- Political and social views; Poets German -- 20th century -- Biography; Germany -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important and influential poets to have written in German. His work, in its originality and impact, easily ranks with that of Goethe, Holderlin, or Rilke. Yet George's reach extended far beyond the sphere... Robert E. Norton is Professor and Chair of German and Russian Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century , also from Cornell. |
