STEFAN GEORGE 1910 German Poetry GOETHE JEAN PAUL 3 Vol Blatter fur die Kunst HC

by Stefan George and Karl Wolfskehl (editors)

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Deutsche Dichtung. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Stefan George und Karl Wolfskehl. Complete in 3 Volumes George, Stefan und Karl Wolfskehl Edited and introduced by Stefan George and Karl Wolfskehl Georg Bondi, Berlin, 1910. 3 Volumes, GERMAN LANGUAGE TEXT. Orig. cloth binding with gilt edges. These "second editions" are also the first public ones, because the volumes were first published in 1902 as a private print with only 303 copies. Very good letterpress hardcovers, no dustjackets. Tight bindings, solid spines, clean unmarked texts except for a few pencil notations in Volume III. 8vos, gilt topedges, sewn in ribbon page-markers, gilt titling and design to frontboards, wonderfully lettered and designed title pages with the “Blatter fur die Kunst” logo. Stefan George, along with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilke one of the pre-eminent German poets of the twentieth century. He also had an important, albeit controversial and provocative role in German cultural history. It is generally agreed that he played a significant part in the transition of German literature to Modernism, particularly in poetry. At the same time he was an outspoken critic of modernity. He believed that only an all-encompassing cultural renewal could save modern man. Although George is often linked with the l'art pour l'art movement, and although his artistic consciousness was formed by European aestheticism, his poet

• Publisher: Georg Bondi
• Year: 1910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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