Winfried Sebald - Across the Land and the Water - Selected Poems, 1964-2001

87 On the Eve ofVVJ, K&C, H.

88 In the Paradise LandscapeGG1. the younger Brueghel: Jan Brueghel the Younger, born in Antwerp in 1601, died in Antwerp 1678. The painting, in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, is generally referred to as Paradise with the Creation of Eve . It was probably painted toward the end of the 1630s.

Appendix

1 I rememberP. Golden Holborn: presumably a conflation of Golden Virginia and Old Holborn, two rolling tobaccos.

2 October Heat WaveP. Title: an earlier title (recorded in a manuscript version of the poem held in GG1 in the Sebald Archive) reads: “6 October 1997.”

W. G. SEBALD was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His books The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo , and Austerlitz have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. His other books include After Nature, Campo Santo , and On the Natural History of Destruction . He died in December 2001.

The hitherto unpublished German poems will appear in the journal Akzente (Munich) in December 2011.

Pneumatology: Geisterlehre (Germ.), or Doctrine of Inflatability.

Large and very handsome flying and sailing device constructed by Messrs. H. and C. Artmann, Royal Engineers/