Narrative poem

Narrative poem is a generic term coined by Heinz Piontek in a 1964 anthology of contemporary poetry ( New German Narrative Poems ) . It is a term based on the English narrative poem , also not clearly determined by Piontek, for shorter modern versepic , which differs from the historical genre of the ballad with its traditionally sentimental or numinous subjects through a distancing, rational attitude and historical or even grotesque subjects wants to distinguish.

literature

• Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , pp. 66 f ..
• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 238.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinz Piontek: New German narrative poems. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1964.