Footprints: Poems Selected and Translated by Anthony Mortimer (Dual-Language Edition) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847495266)

Only edition in print

The most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is regarded as a crucial figure in the transition of German-language poetry from the Romanticism of Heine, Novalis and Eichendorff to the Symbolism of Rilke and Stefan George.

In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images - high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers - to present his own symbolic world with a vividness and intensity that few poets can match. In these sensitive and accurate versions by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer, Meyer's achievement is available to anglophone readers for the first time.

Author: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
ISBN-10: 1847495265
ISBN-13: 9781847495266
Publisher: Alma Books
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2026
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback