Songs on the Death of Children(English, Paperback, Rueckert Friedrich)

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Songs on the Death of Children(English, Paperback, Rueckert Friedrich) is written by Rueckert Friedrich and published by McFarland & Co Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1476690421 (ISBN 10) and 9781476690421 (ISBN 13).

German poet Friedrich Ruckert's (1788-1866) youngest children died of scarlet fever, the pandemic of his age. Over a six month period in 1834, he wrote hundreds of laments that were published posthumously in the classic poetry collection Kindertotenlieder. Here in English for the first time, these evocative modern translations by a fellow bereaved father reveal "an honest grappling with grief" (The Christian Century). Each poem is accompanied by insights into the bereaved, along with personal anecdotes, historical and cultural information, the latest research on grief, and discussions of literary and biblical allusions.