Vermächtnis: Übertragungen 1952 poetry translations by Werner Vordtriede
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Title: Vermächtnis: Übertragungen
Author: Werner Vordtriede / [herausgegeben von J. E. Zeylmans van Emmichoven]
Publication: Den Haag: Druckerei Trio, 1952
Description: One of 200 copies, printed for the author. A collection of Vortriede's poetic translations drawn from issue IX of Castrum Peregrini. Wraps (in the style of Castrum Peregrini). Shows light handling. Gift inscription from 1954, quoting Rilke, on front free endpaper. Pages thumbed, but clean. 30, [2] pages. 24 x 15 cm. Four copies located in WorldCat institutions (Boston University and three libraries in Germany).
Vortriede's translations of poems by Santa Teresa de Avila, John Donne, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, William Johnson Cory, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ernest Dowson, Gerald Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats.
Werner Vordtriede (1915-1985) was an emigre from Nazi Germany, first to Switzerland and then to the United States, who was a professor of German language and literature at the University of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1960, before returning to West Germany and accepting an appointment at the University of Munich.
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good
Keywords: Castrum Peregrini, Poesie, Ubersetzungen, ins Deutsche,
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