The Cathedral: Poems
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Advanced learners of German who wish to encounter German poetry in the original
- Readers interested in poetry of religious and architectural imagery
- Literature enthusiasts studying twentieth-century German-language women poets
- Slow readers who enjoy close reading of short poems and repeated savoring
Not a good fit for
- Complete beginners who do not know German and need line-by-line translations
- Readers who prefer novels or clear storylines
- Researchers seeking detailed biographies and chronological tables of the poet's work
Reading tips
- Read only three to five poems at a time, then pause to savor the imagery.
- Try reading aloud to feel the rhythm of the lines through German sound.
- Excerpt cathedral-related images separately and observe how they change across the poems.
- Use a German dictionary for unfamiliar words, understanding the literal meaning first and then the associations.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Ruth Schaumann (1899–1975) was a German writer best known for her diary-form novel Katrin wird Soldat, set during the First World War. The library also holds her poetry collection Die Kathedrale: Gedichte, which shows that beyond narrative prose she also wrote poetry concerned with faith and inner experience. Public information about her is limited, so details of her life and the full range of her work are difficult to set out. Judging from the works available, her writing tends to follow personal experience and spiritual feeling, with concise language that combines the directness of the diary form with the imagery of poetry. Her place in twentieth-century German literature rests mainly on two strands: war-themed diary narrative and religious lyric poetry.
