Oskar Loerke

Japanese: レルケ（英語表記）Oskar Loerke

1884‐1941
German poet and critic. Born in a village on the Vistula River in what is now Poland, he studied at the University of Berlin and wrote poetry and was a critic while working as a manuscript examiner at the Fischer Bookstore. He gained recognition with his collection of poems, The Music of a Faun (1916), which incorporated mythological elements into meticulous observations of nature, pioneering a unique field of nature poetry that reflected human psychology and social trends in nature, a style that was passed down to poets after the war. His representative works include The Breath of the Earth (1930) and The Forest of Silver Thistles (1934). He also served as a secretary of the Prussian Academy, but was treated poorly by the Nazis and lived in internal exile.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1884‐1941
ドイツの詩人，批評家。現ポーランドのビスワ河畔の村に生まれ，ベルリン大学に学び，フィッシャー書店の原稿審査員をしながら詩作と批評活動を行う。詩集《牧神の音楽》(1916)で認められ，精細な自然観察に神話的要素をとり込み，自然のなかに人間心理や社会の動きまで映し出す独特の自然詩の領域を開拓し，戦後の詩人に受け継がれた。詩集《大地の呼気》(1930)，《銀アザミの森》(1934)が代表作。プロイセン･アカデミーの幹事も務めていたが，ナチスに冷遇され，国内亡命の生活を送った。

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