Michael Hamburger is one of the most active and multifaceted English poets and scholars working today. In addition to having more than two dozen books and pamphlets of his poetry published since 1945,...
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Critical Essay by M. L. Rosenthal
Michael Hamburger is an English poet of recent German ancestry, a fact that makes it easy to understand the unhappy historical consciousness that marks his work. The...
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Critical Essay by John Fuller
Hamburger writes honestly, without fudging his feelings, but he has admitted into [Travelling] too many poems that are simply dull. His ironies tend either to lack sharp...
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Critical Essay by M. B. Benn
The second edition [of Reason and Energy: Studies in German Literature] contains only one essay that is quite new: a comparative study of Milton and Hölderlin enti...
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Critical Essay by Russell Davies
It is shameful to be curt with Michael Hamburger, but I feel his Real Estate suffers … from its travels. It is the fairly depressive constancy of Hamburger�...
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Critical Essay by Glauco Cambon
[The miscellaneous pieces about British and German authors contained in Art as Second Nature: Occasional Pieces 1950–74] are more than just crumbs of an intelle...
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Critical Essay by Anne Stevenson
[Reality] is Michael Hamburger's theme, and he seriously confronts it in his title poem [in Real Estate] about almost but not quite buying an old house where t...
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Michael (Peter Leopold) Hamburger
Critical Essay by M. L. Rosenthal
