After a long period of neglect, Angelus Silesius (1624-77) is now recognized as the major religious poet of seventeenth-century German literature. A Lutheran converted to Catholicism, he composed close on two thousand scared epigrams that combine the exuberance of the southern baroque with the inwardness of northern mysticism. The bold paradoxes of Silesius speak to a modern religious sensibility while remaining rooted in a long German tradition that includes such figures as Hildegard von Bingen, Meister Eckhart, and Jakob Boehme. Some readers will find striking similarities with Buddhist thought while others may be reminded of the visionary flights of Vaughan and Traherne or the provocative aphorisms of William Blake. Anthony Mortimer, already an acclaimed translator from Italian, offers a generous selection of the epigrams in a version that is remarkably faithful both to the sense and the form of the original. Complete with introduction, notes and facing German text, this volume should interest not only teachers and students of seventeenth-century poetry, but all those who are interested in mystical experience and its literary expression. Anthony Mortimer is Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and also taught for many years at the University of Geneva. Among his previous books are Petrarch's "Canzoniere" in the English Renaissance (Minerva Italica, 1975), Variable Passions: A Reading of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" (AMS, 2000), and The Authentic Cadence: Centennial Essays on Gerard Manley Hopkins (Fribourg University Press, 1992).

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Angelus Silesius: Cherubinischer Wandersmann Nach dem Vorbild von Abraham von Franckenberg und Daniel Czepko schreibt Angelus Silesius seine berühmten Epigramme, die er unter dem Titel »Cherubinischer Wandersmann« zusammenfasst und 1657 veröffentlicht. Das Unsagbare, den mystischen Weg zu Gott, in Worte zu fassen, ist das Anliegen seiner antithetisch pointierten Alexandriner Dichtung. »Ich bin so groß als Gott, er ist als ich so klein. Er kann nicht über mich, ich unter ihm nicht sein.« Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger <ul>
<li>Entstanden: Die ersten fünf Teile entstanden vermutlich zwischen 1653 und 1657 und erschienen zuerst: Wien (Johann Jacob Kürner) 1657, der sechste Teil wurde zuerst in der 2. Auflage des Werks, Glatz (Ignatz Schubarth) [1675], gedruckt. Die Texte folgen jeweils den Erstdrucken.</li> </ul> Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: <ul>
<li>Angelus Silesius: Sämtliche poetische Werke in drei Bänden. Band 3, Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Hans Ludwig Held, München: Hanser, 1952.</li> </ul> Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Johannes Scheffler (Strichzeichnung) Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 10 pt.

THE CHERUBINIC WANDERER: Angelus Silesius Translated by J.E. Crawford Flitch, 1932

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ANGELUS SILESIUS THE CHRISTIAN-MYSTIC SUFI POET A Selection of Rhyming Couplets from the Cherubinic WandererTranslation and Preface by Paul SmithAngelus Silesius was a mystic of the Counter-Reformation. He was born Johannes Scheffler in 1624 in the province of Silesia, Poland. In 1653, he converted to Catholicism from Lutheranism and spent the rest of his life avidly trying to reconvert the people of Silesia. Today, however, he is known primarily for his mystical poetry, which was written in the form of 1676 'Alexandrines', which are simple rhymed couplets published as The Cherubinic Wanderer. Of course they lose some in translation and many seem quite na#65533;ve, but the depth of feeling cannot be denied and many more can be seen to approach Haiku and other short, mystical poetry from around the world including the Dohas and Slokas of the Sufi poets of India Baba Farid and Shah Latif. In fact his way of thinking and his belief is almost identical to the Sufis. Here is a cross-section selection of 177 of his mystical poems in the correct form. Preface, appendixes on his life and book. 259 pages.COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'."It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. " Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran."Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of many mystical works in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart.Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, children's books, biographies and a dozen screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com

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