General Info | TEI
| Titel | Vienna, Spring, 1938 |
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| ID | 6572 |
| Type | publication >> poetry |
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https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/6572/ |
| Notes | A direct response to the news of the Anschluss and the following excesses by Nazi ruffians and the Viennese mob is mirrored in the draft of an unpublished poem by Wilson, in which she mourns the downfall of a city and society she had once viewed as quiet and appealing. The Audenesque long lines of this poem entitled “Vienna, Spring, 1938” established a contrast between the songbirds in Viennese gardens and the spring-time vegetation, on the one hand, and the well-founded despondency and despair of Jews and lovers of “intellectual freedom,” on the other (Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, p.249). |
| References | The typescript of this poem is in the Ethel Wilson Collection in Special Collections at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. (Fonds RBSC-ARC-1622 - Ethel Wilson fonds, folder 2-9). |
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| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
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| — | — | written by | Wilson, Ethel |
