# Footprints

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- Authors: [Conrad Ferdinand Meyer](https://www.bookquiver.com/conrad-ferdinand-meyer)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-04-23
- Genres: Poetry / Poems, Fiction: literary and general non-genre

## Description

Only edition in printThe most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is regarded as a crucial figure in the transition of German-language poetry from the Romanticism of Heine, Novalis and Eichendorff to the Symbolism of Rilke and Stefan George. In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images - high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers - to present his own symbolic world with a vividness and intensity that few poets can match. In these sensitive and accurate versions by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer, Meyer's achievement is available to anglophone readers for the first time.

## Editions

### Footprints

- Publisher: Alma
- ISBN: 978-18-4749-526-6
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2026-04-23
- Language: en_US