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The Poetry of Heartbreak: Miklós Radnóti's “The Fifth Eclogue”
- World Literature Today
- University of Oklahoma
- Volume 93, Number 4, Autumn 2019
- pp. 18-20
- 10.1353/wlt.2019.0273
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Abstract:
In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, the author's current book-length project (in progress), Edward Hirsch offers short essays on poems he finds especially heartbreaking, including Dunya Mikhail's “The War Works Hard,” Meena Alexander's “Krishna, 3:29 a.m.,” Zbigniew Herbert's “Mr Cogito and the Imagination,” and Rose Ausländer's “My Nightingale.” The following is an excerpt.
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