Werner Zemp Explained

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

• 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.

Notes and References

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