After Nature

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Michael Hamburger has written, translated, and edited across the fields of German, French, and Italian literature. He has held visiting posts at universities and colleges in America and Great Britain and has received many awards and honors, including two honorary doctorates, several prizes for his translations and, in 1992, an OBE. He has produced poetry throughout his writing life; his Collected Poems 1941–1994 appeared in 1995 and his latest volume, Intersections, in 2000. His critical work on the subject, The Truth of Poetry, was published in 1972 by Penguin. He has also written his memoirs, String of Beginnings (1991).