Description
HERMANN HESSE was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany. He grew to become a celebrated author and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. As the son of missionaries, he developed a fascination with self-discovery and spiritual explorations, an interest also likely due in part to his lifelong struggle with depression, which led him to study Sigmund Freud and, later, to undergo psychoanalysis with Carl Jung. In 1912 he moved to Switzerland, where he wrote his best-known books, including the classic Siddhartha; composed poetry; and painted landscapes. He passed away in 1962 in Montagnola, Switzerland. Hesse is one of the most widely translated authors of the twentieth century; his work continues to have influence worldwide. Trees My Heart Greets You* Good Friday The Old Copper Beech* Movement and Stillness in Harmony* Flowering Branch The Miracle of Rebirth* Spring Night Chestnut Trees Dream The Peach Tree In Full Flower Hermits and Warriors* Shackled Power and Passion* The Birch May in the Chestnut Forest The Black Forest Trees by Joyce Kilmer Uprooted* Page from a Diary Linden Blossoms Lament for an Old Tree Vagrant Hostel Opposites Night with Mountain Wind The Little Path Summer Afternoon at an Old Country House Elegy in September At Bremgarten Castle Natural Forms* Tree in Autumn Pruned Oak A Stray Son of the South* From “Description of a Landscape” Withered Leaf Between the Hourglass and the Withered Leaf* In the Fog A Broken Branch Creaks Wanderer in Late Autumn Afterword by Volker Michels Sources List of Plates * Titles followed by an asterisk were supplied by the German editor, Volker Michels, for untitled poems or excerpts from longer works.
