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'...A Poet or Nothing at All': The Tubingen and Basel Years of Hermann Hesse.(Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 19991001
Author:White, J.J.

'... A Poet or Nothing at All': The Tubingen and Basel Years of Hermann Hesse. By RICHARD C. HELT. Providence, RI, and Oxford: Berghahn. 1996. xii + 257 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].

In October 1900, the twenty-three-year-old Hermann Hesse privately offered handwritten copies of a collection of his early poems for sale to close friends and literary acquaintances for the modest price of ten to twenty Swiss francs. In the words of the circular with which the project was announced:

Einem alten Wunsche nachgebend habe ich mich entschlossen, mein jungst vollendetes Manuskript nicht der ...

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