Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal established his reputation with lyric poems and a number of plays, including Yesterday (1891) and Death and the Fool (1893).
This Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist flourished.
Hofmannsthal uses dreams, feelings, impressions to evoke a poetic, mystical reality. Highlights (excluding those also in the NYRB collection): Fear, Greece.