Rimbaud's Ophelia

NecrOphelia

“…Seen as the modern-day Ophelia, she had inspired an entire generation of turn-ofthe-century German Expressionist poets. Rimbaud's 1870 poem 'Ophelie', translated into German by Karl Clammy in 1907, became a prototype for the so-called German 'water corpse poetry' (WaAAerleichenpoe.6ie) of the early twentieth century (Minogue 1989). Stefan George's 'Die Ma.6ke' (1899), Georg Heym's 'The Dead One in the Water' (Die Tote im Wa_,v,er, 1910), 'Ophelia' (1910) (Ruesch 1964).…”