I read this in translation,so I can't say for certainmaybe there is some metric by which it is poetry.Maybe the lines are not merelybroken because Sebald felt like it.Perhaps in German this is not prosaic --by which I am not calling Sebald's writingby any means quotidian butI saw no reason it could ...
ForewordPrefaceIntroductionBiographical NoteOdes and Epigrams (1797-1799)Epigrams (1797)--Good Advice--Descriptive Poetry--To Diotima--Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse...')--Bonaparte--Empedocles--To the Fates--Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them...')--To Her Genius--Plea f...
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