Werner Zemp (1906-1959) was a German-Swiss poet and translator, "regarded in Switzerland as the most distinguished German-Swiss pastoral poet of his generation".[1] Zemp was also an expert on the 19th-century poet Eduard Mörike.

Works

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  • Gedichte [Poetry], 1937.
  • Mörike : Elemente und Anfänge [Mörike: elements and beginnings], 1938
  • (tr.) Tanz, Zeichnung und Degas [Dance, drawing and Degas] by Paul Valéry. Zurich, 1940. Translated from the French Degas, danse, dessin.
  • (ed.) Briefe [Letters] by Eduard Mörike.
  • Das lyrische Werk, Aufsätze, Briefe [The lyrical work, essays, letters], 1967.

References

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  1. ^ Hamburger, Michael; Middleton, Christopher, eds. (1966). Modern German Poetry, 1910-1960: An Anthology with Verse Translations. London: MacGibbon & Kee. p. 413.