The book spans three centuries--opening with Angelus Silesius, Klopstock, Claudius, Goethe, and Schiller, and ending with Brecht and B ll--but it has considerable continuity.
Not only would many discussions of death be better if the authors had some inkling of the great variety of.
For example, almost all of the poets express an attitude toward death.
The prefaces for each of the Twenty-Five poets integrate the selections into a story, and often poems by different writers invite comparison.
The book spans three centuries--opening with Angelus Silesius, Klopstock, Claudius, Goethe, and Schiller, and ending with Brecht and B ll--but it has considerable continuity