Das Jahr der Seele

Ernest Briggs, Stefan George

Brisbane

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Ernest Briggs

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20.5cm x 13cm. [77] leaves (manuscript on recto only). Soft maroon leather wrappers.

Autograph transcription of German symbolist poet Stefan George’s 1897 work Das Jahr der Seele [The Year of the Soul] by Australian poet, broadcaster, and critic Ernest Briggs (1905-1967). The complete work has been copied in the original German, though the poem starting ‘Keins wie dein feines ohr’ has only been titled with a blank space left for the poem, and the final 9 poems from ‘Ob schwerer nebel in den waldern hangt’ to end have not been included, presumably only because Briggs ran out of room in the book. Penned during Briggs time at 4BK Brisbane sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

Minor shelf and handling wear. Minor foxing, mostly to endpapers. Very Good Condition.