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This essay is a shortened version of a paper read at the 26th Meeting of the South Central MLA in Houston, Texas on Oct. 31, 1969. I quote from the following volumes of Celan's poetry:Mohn und Gedächtnis. 4. Aufl. 1960 [=M];Von Schwelle zu Schwelle. 2. Aufl. 1960 [=Sch];Sprachgitter. 1959 [=S];Die Niemandsrose. 1963 [=N];Atemwende. 1967 [=A], and from Rainer Maria Rilke,Sämtliche Werke. Zweiter Band. 1956. Of the critical literature I have consulted: Edgar Lohner, “Dem Verderben abgewonnen,”Die Zeit, Nr. 9 (March 5, 1965), p. 11; Hans E. Holthusen, “Das verzweifelte Gedicht: Paul Celan,”Plädoyer für den Einzelnen. Kritische Beiträge zur literarischen Diskussion. 1967, pp. 167–171; Peter Horst Neumann,Zur Lyrik Paul Celans. 1968; Peter Paul Schwarz,Totengedächtnis und dialogische Polarität in der Lyrik Paul Celans, Beihefte zur ZeitschriftWirkendes Wort (XVIII), 1966, and Klaus Weissenberger,Formen der Elegie von Goethe bis Celan. 1969. Most convincing I found William Rey's detailed interpretation of the poem “Psalm” in his article “Paul Celan: Das blühende Nichts,”German Quarterly, XLIII/4 (Nov. 1970), pp. 749–769, which I read after the completion of my manuscript.
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Winkler, M. On Paul Celan's rose images. Neophilologus 56, 72–78 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01740498
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