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(1884-1962) American poet, propagandist and Germanophile; an early supporter of Hitler and general apologist for Nazism, convicted in 1942 for failing to register as a Nazi agent. Important A.Q.S. signed in full, 1p. 4to., "District Jail", Dec. 19, 1941. While in jail and awaiting trial for his failure to register as a German agent, Viereck pens a 14-line poem he has titled "Farewell to Marriage Sonnet in Jail". In part: "No sweeter rosebud bloomed in brush or briar, / Not Holy Ghost, nor Cytherean dove / Was whiter than the kisses of my Love, / Half sprite, half child, sprung from no mundane mire...Gone is the pagan shamelessness divine / That even of our bodies made a sacred shrine. / Elf child no more, but mistress without mercy / Her heart no dream of eerie beauty..." Very good. Viereck had married Margaret"Gretchen" Edith Hein in 1915 and she bore him two sons, one of whom died in action at Anzio. Viereck would remain in prison until 1947.

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