Abstract
Hartmut Vollmer (1993) and Barbara Wright (2005) argue that women Expressionist poets have been largely neglected and forgotten. The article seeks to make a modest contribution towards remedying this scholarly lacuna by examining Hedwig Caspari’s poetry, while focusing on the relationship between Poet and God as reflected in her poetry. Caspari (1882–1922) was a German-Jewish poet who lived and worked in Berlin. During her lifetime, she published two books—a play entitled Salomos Abfall (1920) and a volume of poetry entitled Elohim (1919). Like her play, most of her poetry deals with biblical themes. Caspari’s multifaceted relationship with God informs her poetry from the earliest to the latest poems. This article wishes to expose Caspari’s unique fe/male voice, showing her stance as a “prophet,” “lover,” and “Psalmist”, and attempts to explain why as a modernist poet she decided to write spiritual poetry.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 135-151 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Naharaim |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
Early online date | 30 Nov 2018 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 19 Dec 2018 |
Keywords
- German Expressionist poetry
- Hedwig Caspari
- messianic Expressionism
- female poets
- spiritual poetry