Poem: “Towards the city centre to Gaudenzdorf”
This short poem was composed after Meingast rode the new steam tram in Vienna in 1887: Too close and too many and there is no near handle/and we know all of it ...
Category: Poetry
Meingast’s poem for children
Exciting news, all! I’ve located a manuscript of Meingast’s 1903 poem for children, “Entartete Entenarten.” It’s in a library in L...
Poem: “Watching the Canvas at the Rijksmuseum”
Meingast travelled to Amsterdam in 1885 to go to the Rijksmuseum, which had just moved into its new building (that “disorienting hodgepodge of Gothic and ...