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Author:   Peter Viereck ,  Irving Louis Horowitz ,  Daniel Weissbort
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Transaction Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780765803948

ISBN 10:   0765803941
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1: Background; 1: On Transplanting into New Gardens; 2: Notes on Stefan George and Georg Heym; 2: Stefan George; 3: George Seen by Fellow Germans of the 1930s; 4: Poems by Stefan George: Comments and Contexts; 5: Controversies about George; 6: George vs. Klages-Schuler: Context for Stefan George’s Poems “Nordics,” “Jews and Germans,” and “Templars”; 7: “Norbert”: Context for Hellingrath,Hölderlin, and George’s Disciples; 8: Deciphering “The Stranger”: A Detective Story; 9: The Maximin Series; 10: Poems by Stefan George; 3: Georg Heym; 11: The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym; 12: On Translating a Heym Poem; 13: Heym’s “War”; 14: Heym’s “Prayer”; 15: “Blue” and “Light”: A Heritage from Hölderlin and from Romanticism; 16: Heym’s “Post Mortem”; 17: Seven Poems by Georg Heym; 4: Related Poets; 18: Hofmannsthal, Benn, Hölderlin, and Others; 5: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 19: A Goethe Sampler

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Peter Viereck was that rare scholar who captured the European experience with America, while fully realizing the American encounter with Europe. He did so with consciousness of and compassion for both sectors of Western Civilization - Irving Louis Horowitz, Society

"""Peter Viereck was that rare scholar who captured the European experience with America, while fully realizing the American encounter with Europe. He did so with consciousness of and compassion for both sectors of Western Civilization"" - Irving Louis Horowitz, Society"""

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Peter Viereck (1916-2006) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic, and historian. He held the Kenan Chair in History at Mount Holyoke College. He was known as one of America's conservatism's early leaders and was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships both in history and poetry.

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