Erlösungen

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  • Dehmel
    In Richard Dehmel

    …his first collection of poems, Erlösungen (1891; “Redemptions”), the conflict is expressed in the opposition of unbridled sensuality and ascetic self-discipline. Dehmel found a resolution of the conflict through his belief in the mystical power of love and sex. He came to view the sensual relations between a man and…

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