Zum Geleit: Natur in Transistion: Europaeische Lyrik nach 1945

The foreword to this volume particularly focuses on the concept of nature as a concept in constant progress and transition. If XIX century poetry still believed to depict an absolute natural world, after 1945 it was no longer possibile to consider nature as an object separated from the human being and subjected to him. This foreword shows how the poetical discourse on natural hystory after 1945 necessarily implied a doscourse on human history. Far from being absolute, nature in Anthropocene finally proved to be transient and transitory.