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Description:German and English edition.In 1933 the German Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948), deeply disturbed by the brutal anti-Semitism rising in his native Germany, fled into exile in Switzerland and Italy. The inner turmoil which accompanied this personal catastrophe found its expression in new poetry: the sequence Die Stimme spricht (The Voice Speaks), An die Deutschen (To the Germans). When Italy too adopted anti-Jewish legislation Wolfskehl left Europe, seeking asylum in faraway New Zealand, where he found shelter and the peace to continue writing poetry: his Mediterranean cycle and his most important composition Job, or The Four Mirrors.This selection of Wolfskehl's poetry includes poems from his beginnings around 1900, but focuses on the work from his years of exile when he emerged from the shadow of his admired poet-friend Stefan George and found his own distinctive voice. It is in these poems that the 'three worlds', which constituted the creative identity of the poet Karl Wolfskehl, are expressed. In the famous lines of his autobiographical poem Ultimus Vatum:"Secretive and proud, worldly-wise, humble in GodRemained I Jewish, Roman, German all at once."A naturalized New Zealander, Karl Wolfskehl died on June 30, 1948, in Auckland. His tombstone in the Waikumere cemetery bears his name in Hebrew and German, and underneath, the Latin inscription: Exul Poeta."The poetry created or finished in New Zealand in his best." — Peter Russel, New Zealand Books 100, Summer 2012"I remember his size among my tomatoes: it was prodigious; and on the soft soil he left giant footprints." — Frank Sargeson, More the Enough.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Three Worlds / Drei Welten: Selected Poems. To get started finding Three Worlds / Drei Welten: Selected Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 312

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Cold Hub Press

Release: 2016

ISBN: 0473358670

Description: German and English edition.In 1933 the German Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948), deeply disturbed by the brutal anti-Semitism rising in his native Germany, fled into exile in Switzerland and Italy. The inner turmoil which accompanied this personal catastrophe found its expression in new poetry: the sequence Die Stimme spricht (The Voice Speaks), An die Deutschen (To the Germans). When Italy too adopted anti-Jewish legislation Wolfskehl left Europe, seeking asylum in faraway New Zealand, where he found shelter and the peace to continue writing poetry: his Mediterranean cycle and his most important composition Job, or The Four Mirrors.This selection of Wolfskehl's poetry includes poems from his beginnings around 1900, but focuses on the work from his years of exile when he emerged from the shadow of his admired poet-friend Stefan George and found his own distinctive voice. It is in these poems that the 'three worlds', which constituted the creative identity of the poet Karl Wolfskehl, are expressed. In the famous lines of his autobiographical poem Ultimus Vatum:"Secretive and proud, worldly-wise, humble in GodRemained I Jewish, Roman, German all at once."A naturalized New Zealander, Karl Wolfskehl died on June 30, 1948, in Auckland. His tombstone in the Waikumere cemetery bears his name in Hebrew and German, and underneath, the Latin inscription: Exul Poeta."The poetry created or finished in New Zealand in his best." — Peter Russel, New Zealand Books 100, Summer 2012"I remember his size among my tomatoes: it was prodigious; and on the soft soil he left giant footprints." — Frank Sargeson, More the Enough.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Three Worlds / Drei Welten: Selected Poems. To get started finding Three Worlds / Drei Welten: Selected Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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