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Three Worlds / Drei Welten : Selected Poems
Paperback Edition: 1
This first ever comprehensive selection of Wolfskehl's poetry in English translation, the work of New Zealand translator Andrew Paul Wood and Wolfskehl scholar Friedrich Voit, 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 God Remained Jewish, Roman, German all at once. A naturalized New Zealander, Karl Wolfskehl died in 1948, in Auckland. His tombstone in the Waikumete cemetery bears his name in Hebrew and German, and underneath, the Latin inscription: Exul Poeta.
Pages : 312
Publisher : Cold Hub Press
Publication date : 2016-06
Subjects: Fiction, NZ Poetry, NZ Poetry By Individual Poets