Hours in the Garden and Other Poems

by Hermann Hesse and Rika (Transl.) Hesse, Hermann; Lesser

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374172900
• ISBN13: 9780374172909
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 89 Pages

Customer Reviews

CHARMING!

The book consists of six narrative poems describing beautiful scenes of nature.Hesse takes you with him for his morning walk through his garden drawing a lively picture of his flowers, vegetables and trees. He describes the hard work and the time he, his wife, Natalina and Lorenzo put to make this garden one entity of beauty and care. You take every step with him up the hill... see every tree and feel the warm sun ...and even smell the burning leaves. Of course Hesse never forgets to comment on human nature and life!Whether he was planting his tree, describing the broken bough, the pavilion or the fall wind blowing at the old man's face... each poem has its message of contentment, serenity and natural beauty."The Lame Boy" is a recollection of his childhood and his relationship with a crippled boy, a "comrade" who taught him patience and understanding nature but could never call a friend!! He remembers his summers with this boy, going fishing together, showing his weak body but revealing his true qualities as a person. He talks about how we judge people and comments on the way he looked at his friend and what he thinks of him now after all those years.I enjoyed reading the poems and I read the book more than once. The description is sublime... and I couldn't believe the sense of calmness it had on me!!