Die Dichtungen von Georg Trakl — Erste Gesamtausgabe (The Poems of Georg Trakl: First Complete Edition) gathers the complete verse of one of German literature’s most haunting and original poets. Trakl, an Austrian who died in 1914 at the age of twenty-seven, wrote German poetry of devastating beauty — images of autumn, decay, guilt, and spiritual desolation that seem to channel both personal anguish and the approaching catastrophe of the First World War.
Rilke and Wittgenstein were among his earliest admirers, and his influence on twentieth-century German poetry cannot be overstated. Download this free public-domain EPUB to immerse yourself in the complete collected poems of an irreplaceable and tragically brief literary life.