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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Like many of Fenton’s early extended poems, “A German Requiem” can seem almost impenetrable unless the reader accepts the overt evasiveness of its narrator. A deliberately paradoxical poem, it evokes the memories of war without revealing them.
The Memory of War (1982), drawing on his experience in the Far East, secured his reputation as one of the finest poets of his generation. He won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1984 for Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 and in 1994 Fenton became Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
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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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.
