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for your marked improvement of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German poet. Slowking4 †@1₭ 04:04, 2 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. Paul Marston (talk) 12:36, 2 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

btw, i mentioned you at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poetry. maybe we can get some collaboration, there are 2 other sources to include, and then copyedit to get a good article. Slowking4 †@1₭ 04:18, 4 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
I don't really have the time at the moment, I'm afraid. There are plenty more than two sources available on Droste, but the best, most up-to-date stuff tends to be in German (she isn't a writer who has been much translated into English, at least as far as her poetry is concerned. There is, however, at least one translation of Die Judenbuche available in paperback). I suspect the ideal source would be Barbara Beuys's recent biography Blamierien mag ich mich nicht, which is three times longer than Freund's. I've never read it, though. Nevertheless, Freund is up-to-date and I would be hesitant about including much older sources just for the sake of it. Cheers. Paul Marston (talk) 10:42, 4 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

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It's given me some excuse to practise my Polish. It's depressing how much intellectual effort has been wasted on this unencyclopaedic garbage though. Nonetheless, I trust "BLP" will win through. --Paul Marston (talk) 09:16, 2 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

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