62 Hermlin's
stance on the rela- tionship between poet and tradition is clearly evident in a speech given later in 1964: 'Er [der Schriftsteller] arbeitet unweigerlich in einem Universum, das von den Ausstrahlungen und Spuren all seiner Vorga?
Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s