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A German Requiem. by James Fenton. It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces in between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you ...
For example, A German Requiem (1981) touches upon that country’s disastrous, World War II-inducing experiment with National Socialism in the 1930s. Its “eerie final section creates an unforgettable, muted image for the huge suffering and suggests the way Fenton’s own reticent imagination has found its most impressive expression,” noted ...
Fenton, James: A German Requiem. 'For as at a great distance of place, that which wee look at, appears dimme and without distinction of the smaller parts; and as Voyces grow weak and inarticulate: so also after great distance of time, our imagination of the Past is weak; and wee lose (for example) of Cities wee have seen, many particular ...
1980: A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet; 1981: Dead Soldiers, Sycamore Press; 1982: The Memory of War: Poems 1968–1982, Salamander Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-907540-39-7
Jan 1, 1981 · A GERMAN REQUIEM. Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 1981. by James Fenton (Author) 5.0 1 rating. See all formats and editions.
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This poem is taken from PN Review 36, Volume 10 Number 4, March - April 1984. A German Requiem James Fenton.
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Jan 1, 1981 · A German Requiem. James Fenton. 5.00. 1 rating0 reviews. Published January 1, 1981. Book details & editions. About the author. James Fenton. 88 books53 followers. Follow. James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry.
