A Note on Trakl's 'Song of Kaspar Hauser' , by Scott Horton

By Scott HortonJuly 28, 20076 min read

I have just posted my translation of one of Georg Trakl’s poems, The Song of Kaspar Hauser from the collection published posthumously in 1915 entitled

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