{"product_id":"9781847495266","title":"Footprints : Poems Selected and Translated by Anthony Mortimer (Dual-Language Edition)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Anthony Mortimer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly edition in printThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alma Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385480061155,"sku":"9781847495266","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781847495266.jpg?v=1783616278","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781847495266","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}