Transplantings provides new insight into Viereck as a poet of substance, but more than that, as a public intellectual. He is critical in probing the work of major figures like Stefan George and Georg Heym. To round out this monumental new look at...
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Transplantings provides new insight into Viereck as a poet of substance, but more than that, as a public intellectual. He is critical in probing the work of major figures like Stefan George and Georg Heym. To round out this monumental new look at German poetical history, Viereck reviews Goethe, Novalis, and Rilke among others. Daniel Weissbort notes that Viereck's study represented a sixty-five year long project. Now, it is finally being brought to print in its full form, with the completion of the final manuscript shortly before Viereck's death Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction Peter Viereck: European-American Conscience- 1916- 2006 -- Part 1 Background -- On Transplanting into New Gardens -- Notes on Stefan George and Georg Heym -- Part 2 Stefan George -- George Seen by Fellow Germans of the 1930s ( With Special Reference to His Poem " Templars") -- Poems by Stefan George: Comments and Contexts -- Controversies about George -- George vs. Klages-Schuler: Context for Stefan George's Poems " Nordics," " Jews and Germans," and " Templars" -- "Norbert": Context for Hellingrath, Hölderlin, and George's Disciples Deciphering "The Stranger": A Detective Story -- The Maximin Series -- Poems by Stefan George -- Part 3 Georg Heym -- The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym -- On Translating a Heym Poem -- Heym's "War" -- Heym's "Prayer" -- "Blue" and "Light": A Heritage from Hölderlin and from Romanticism -- Heym's "Post Mortem" -- Seven Poems by Georg Heym -- Part 4 Related Poets -- Hofmannsthal, Benn, Hölderlin, and Others -- Part 5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- A Goethe Sampler -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Books by Peter Viereck
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction Peter Viereck: European-American Conscience� 1916- 2006""; ""Part 1 Background""; ""On Transplanting into New Gardens""; ""Notes on Stefan George and Georg Heym""; ""Part 2 Stefan George""; ""George Seen by Fellow Germans of the 1930s ( With Special Reference to His Poem “ Templars�)""; ""Poems by Stefan George: Comments and Contexts""; ""Controversies about George""; ""George vs. Klages-Schuler: Context for Stefan George�s Poems “ Nordics,� “ Jews and Germans,� and “ Templars�""
""“Norbert�: Context for Hellingrath, Hölderlin, and George�s Disciples""""Deciphering “The Stranger�: A Detective Story""; ""The Maximin Series""; ""Poems by Stefan George""; ""Part 3 Georg Heym""; ""The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym""; ""On Translating a Heym Poem""; ""Heym�s “War�""; ""Heym�s “Prayer�""; ""“Blue� and “Light�: A Heritage from Hölderlin and from Romanticism""; ""Heym�s “Post Mortem�""; ""Seven Poems by Georg Heym""; ""Part 4 Related Poets""; ""Hofmannsthal, Benn, Hölderlin, and Others""; ""Part 5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe""
""A Goethe Sampler""""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography of Books by Peter Viereck""
