Footprints: Poems Selected and Translated by Anthony Mortimer (Dual-Language Edition)

By Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Only edition in print

The most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is regarded as a crucial figure in the transition of German-language poetry from the Romanticism of Heine, Novalis and Eichendorff to the Symbolism of Rilke and Stefan George.

In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images - high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers - to present his own symbolic world with a vividness and intensity that few poets can match. In these sensitive and accurate versions by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer, Meyer's achievement is available to anglophone readers for the first time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847495265
• ISBN13: 9781847495266
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Length: 144 Pages