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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Eggerth, Werner |
| Title, Monographic | My Own Philosophy, and Other Poems and Dramas |
| Place of Publication | Chicago, Ill. |
| Publisher | R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company |
| Date of Publication | 1909 |
| Extent of Work | x, 292 |
| View Online | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006583884 |
| Notes | From prefatory material: Werner Eggerth . . . was born Aug. 21, 1834, on a farm ten miles west of the Mississippi river, near Guttenberg, Clayton Co., Iowa. The country schools at that time were primitive and poor, and although a bright scholar, he had acquired only the rudiments of reading, writing and spelling at the age of fifteen, when he left school. Being ambitious to improve and to make good use of his time, he at the age of seventeen bought a grammar one day, with the intention to again enter school for the winter, but the same night he was stricken with spinal meningitis and became totally deaf. he lost his oldest brother at the same time from the same disease. Having great plans for the future, and finding himself cut off from the world by his terrible misfortune and thinking his life lost and ruined forever, he was the prey of despair for full three years. In order to forget his misfortune, he plunged into all kinds of hard work, and when the weather would not permit he wrote poetry in German, being of German parentage and having attended a German school for a short time. Soon, however, he perceived that in a country where the official language is English, it would be a wise move to write mostly English. He bought a good English-German and German-English translating dictionary and toiled patiently for years and years and at last understood not one but both languages better than any of his schoolmates or acquaintances. |
| Call Number | Digital file |
| MKI Terms | Poetry |