“Only in a few pages does Mr. Viereck succeed in producing the effects he strives for; the rest of it is crude and commonplace.”
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“The difficulty with Mr. Viereck’s treatment lies in purely melodramatic conception of character, an utter lack of subtlety in dealing with the whole situation, and a distressing congestion of large words.”
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“Except in the final scene, where its extravagances are in keeping with the subject, the style of the book is quite impossible. ‘The house of the vampire’ may be described as a tale of horror, keyed from the first word to the last in the highest pitch of tragic emotion.”
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Viereck, George Sylvester. Nineveh and other poems. **$1.25. Moffat.
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“In this volume of verse the author’s theme is, for the most part, the anguish and the joy of adolescence. Some of the best poems are glorious riots of purely sensuous passion; others are despairing cries to some solidity of stay amid the turbulence of sense. The poet and the immoralist are at war in many verses, but the poems are sane because the poet is the stronger.” (Bookm.)