Gedichte. Mit einer Einführung von Eduard Engel
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- SIGNED Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1922
Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1922. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mustard cloth stamped in brown. Bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. Minor toning of textblock. Fine in glassine dust wrapper. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Poems by the prolific German-born author George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962), who first gained renown for The House of the Vampire and Nineveh and other Poems (both 1907), which showed the strong influence of Oscar Wilde. Viereck became notorious for his pro-German propaganda during the first world war, and later for his pro-Nazi propaganda before and during the second world war, for which he was imprisoned.
This is a German-language selection of his early verse, including Nineveh (1907), with some pieces translated by other hands. Viereck’s free German translation (“frei verdeutscht”) of The Ballad of Reading Gaol appears here at pages 151-175; his English translation of the Deutschlandslied, “Deutschland, Deutschland, Land of All Lands” (which appears here on p. 176) remained standard for many years.
Signed by the author on the front flyleaf.
This is a German-language selection of his early verse, including Nineveh (1907), with some pieces translated by other hands. Viereck’s free German translation (“frei verdeutscht”) of The Ballad of Reading Gaol appears here at pages 151-175; his English translation of the Deutschlandslied, “Deutschland, Deutschland, Land of All Lands” (which appears here on p. 176) remained standard for many years.
Signed by the author on the front flyleaf.