Beautiful Sanctuaries in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century European Literature

Hugo G. Walter has a BA from Princeton University, an MA from Old Dominion University, a PhD in literature from Yale University, and a PhD in interdisciplinary studies from Drew University. Walter is Professor of English and Humanities at Berkeley College, New Jersey, and Online. He has written widely on European literature, including The Apostrophic Moment in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century German Lyric Poetry (Lang, 1988), Space and Time on the Magic Mountain: Studies in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century European Literature (Lang, 1999), and Sanctuaries of Light in Nineteenth Century European Literature (Lang, 2010). In addition, Walter has published ten volumes of poetry.

«Hugo G. Walter presents a brilliant, lucid, and deeply learned study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European prose and poetry for the avid scholar and enthusiast of literature.» (Luisa Ferreira, Berkeley College)«This is a fascinating and an insightful examination of the artist’s triumph over the limitations of mortality. The breadth of scholarship in this excellent and important book is remarkable.» (Richard Schultz, Berkeley College)