Gottfried Benn

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Later poems achieving formal precision and philosophical depth in sparse language

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Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn

German expressionist poet whose early morgue poems were shocking in their clinical detachment, and whose late work Static Poems established a cool, nihilistic modernism. He is one of the major German poets of the century.

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