Richard Sieburth is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at New York University and a renowned translator of German and French poetry and literature.
Christian Lehnert is the Head of Liturgical Studies at the University of Leipzig and a critically acclaimed poet, recipient of the 2018 German Prize for Nature Writing and of the 2024 Hölderlin Prize for German Poetry.
“Sieburth creates an intricate music for Lehnert’s crystalline poems. An incandescent experience.” – Rosanna Warren
“Sieburth’s latest translational revelation comes in the form of Lehnert’s Wickerwork, the supple, metaphysical weave of which seems to emerge from several lifetimes of looking and reflection” – Peter Cole
Co-sponsored by the Rethinking Translation and Classical Traditions and Receptions seminars and the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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