What is perhaps most striking about Hugo von Hofmannsthal are contradictions that characterize his creative imagination. His poetic laboratory was filled with an ever-increasing multiplicity of images, themes, ideas, situations, and dramatis personae....

What is perhaps most striking about Hugo von Hofmannsthal are contradictions that characterize his creative imagination. His poetic laboratory was filled with an ever-increasing multiplicity of images, themes, ideas, situations, and dramatis personae....

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is generally considered the most important Austrian writer of the early twentieth century; among German-speaking writers of this period only Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka have generated more commentary. At the same time,...

The Austrian poet, dramatist, and essayist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) is best known for his opera librettos. He is also considered a master of German lyric poetry. Hugo von Hofmannsthal was born in Vienna and spent most of his life there. He...