Werner Zemp (1906-1959) was a German-Swiss poet and translator, "regarded in Switzerland as the most distinguished German-Swiss

pastoral The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. The target au ...

poet of his generation". Zemp was also an expert on the 19th-century poet

Eduard Mörike Eduard Friedrich Mörike (; 8 September 18044 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used b ...

Works

* ''Gedichte'' oetry 1937. * ''Mörike : Elemente und Anfänge'' örike: elements and beginnings 1938 * (tr.) ''Tanz, Zeichnung und Degas'' ance, drawing and Degasby

Paul Valéry Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, m ...

. Zurich, 1940. Translated from the French ''Degas, danse, dessin''. * (ed.) ''Briefe'' ettersby

. * ''Das lyrische Werk, Aufsätze, Briefe'' he lyrical work, essays, letters 1967.

References

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