1st Edition

Strict Wildness Discoveries in Poetry and History

By Peter Viereck Copyright 2008
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

A reviewer once called Peter Viereck's thought "not common sense but inspired, electric common sense." This volume of Viereck's selected essays on poetry and on history, written between 1938 through 2004, exemplifies this quality. Its main theme is suggested in Viereck's coined phrase "strict wildness," which suggests a balance between restraint (which by itself is staid and rigid) and passion... Read more
Epigraph—“Autobiog”, Part 1 Poetry: Controversies, Part 2 History: Its Sadness, Part 3 German Poets, Epilogue - My 89th Year

Biography

Peter Viereck