Prose poetry

A prose poem is a poem in prose, without poetry for constitutive form elements such verses or rhymes. Experienced its heyday it in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the German -speaking world since the 20th century prose poems in widespread lyrical works increasingly detectable. This hybrid form is to be regarded basically as a legacy of German Romanticism.

History

First French prose poem applies Gaspard de la nuit ( 1842) by Aloysius Bertrand. In the German Romantic however, she had already been significant models (Jean Paul Richter, Novalis, Holderlin, Heine ). Stefan George and Maurice Maeterlinck worked in France as an influential mediator of the German Romantics. Which then incurred en Petits poèmes were known prose (also Spleen de Paris) by Charles Baudelaire, in which the author consciously strove for a prosaic language. Isidore Ducasse ( Comte de Lautréamont pseudonym ) wrote the Chants de Maldoror, which were published in 1869 for the first time in the 20th century as a source of inspiration for the Surrealists.

A strong contribution to the evolution of these species had probably reflections on practice and the results of poem translations in prose versions. Detlev von Liliencron, well familiar with Baudelaire's work, published in adjutant rides and Other Poems (1883 ) simultaneously with Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-85 ) spoke exemplary prose poems in German language. Having a large number of poets of the century (Peter Altenberg, Christian Morgenstern, Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Ivan Turgenev ) with success in the form tries. The mature Turgenev has even given two extensive collections of prose poems in the world and led the genre in Russian literature. For a general overview of the development of the prose poem in the 19th century see: Alexander Stillmark, poems in prose from Romanticism to Modernism ( 2013).

Contemporary literature

For a long time was conveyed in lyrical textbooks the theoretical equipment, as it was necessary for centuries to produce a poem. To evidence this has been increasingly used Baroque poet.

However, This was the newer, zeitgeistigere tendency to prose poem, as encountered in the German language about the lyrical works of Erich Fried, Günter Grass, Günter Bruno Fuchs, but also by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, denied in their time contingency and appropriateness consistently.

• Lyrical form