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Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Museum der modernen Poesie (1960)
  • Meike G. Werner EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: November 14, 2019

Abstract

In 1960, two competing anthologies of modern poetry were published in an attempt to renew and internationalize German poetry: Günther Steinbrinker’s Panorama moderner Lyrik and Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s Museum der modernen Poesie. This essay argues that the success of Museum over Panorama was based on Enzensberger’s comparative approach to modernist poetry in the first half of the twentieth century as a “chrestomathy” (a textbook) for a “world language of poetry”. This chrestomathy also provided the blueprint for his own German-language poems, which he published the same year in a collection titled Landessprache.

Published Online: 2019-11-14
Published in Print: 2019-11-08

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