Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Sadakichi Hartmann In Year : 1904

Book Language: English

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Instead of a Preface
Nocturne
Why Do I Love Thee?
Why Do I Not Love Thee?
Drifting Flowers of the Sea
Immaculate Conception
A Triloet
Parfum Des Fleurs
Twilight Hours
Tanka
Dawn Flowers
To the ‘Flat Iron’
As The Lindens Shiver in Autumn Dreams
Love by The Sea
Sweet Are The Dreams on the Breeze-Blown Strand
The Pirate

Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Nagasaki Harbor, to a German businessman and a Japanese mother. His mother died during childbirth and Sadakichi was sent to Germany to be raised. He arrived in America in 1882 and became friends with Walt Whitman. Sadakichi became an art and literary critic, wrote plays, short stories and several volumes of poetry. His poetry was heavily influenced by both the Japanese forms and Symbolist poets like Stéphane Mallarmé. - Summary by Nemo