Lehmann, W.

…He was praised for his combination of poetic tradition with modern methods of expression, and for his purification and clarity of language. He received the Büchner Prize from the Academy of German Language and Letters in 1956, and served as its president from 1972 to 1975. He is one of the leading poets in postwar West Germany. Influenced by Wilhelm Lehmann (1882-1962) and others, he started out with sensitive nature poetry, and gained a pan-European perspective through contact with Lorca, Auden, and the French Surrealists (Apollinaire, Éluard, etc.). However, he went beyond these and consistently pursued themes of lyric poetry and innovations in methods of expression, writing poetry that was "non-engagement, non-political, non-topical" while engaging with the rapidly changing modern world. His poems, such as "The Invisible Hand" (1962), were collected in two volumes of "Complete Poems" (1965, 1975), but his numerous translations of contemporary French and Spanish poetry, as well as essays and critiques such as "Aspects of Contemporary German Lyric Poetry" (1961) and "Poetic Diary" (1966), are also important.

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…詩的伝統と現代的表現手法の結合，および言葉の純化･明晰化を評価され，1956年ドイツ言語･文学アカデミーのビュヒナー賞を受け，72‐75年には同会長を務めるなど，戦後の西ドイツを代表する詩人の一人。レーマンWilhelm Lehmann(1882‐1962)等の影響下で感覚繊細な自然詩から出発し，ロルカ，オーデン，またフランスのシュルレアリスト(アポリネール，エリュアール等)に接して全ヨーロッパ的視野を獲得するが，さらにそれらを超えて抒情詩のテーマ，表現手法の革新を一貫して追求，急変する現代とかかわりつつも“非アンガージュマン的･非政治的･非時事的”な詩を書いた。《見えない手》(1962)等の詩は《全詩集》2巻(1965,75)に集成されたが，多数のフランス･スペイン現代詩の翻訳や《現代ドイツ抒情詩の諸相》(1961)，《詩的日記》(1966)等のエッセー，評論も重要である。…

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