Beck,K. Songs of the poor man. With a preface to the House of Rothschild. Lpz., Hermann 1846. 5 pp., 324 pp. Central hardcover (somewhat rubbed and worn). NDB I, 704. first edition. - The Hungarian Beck went to Leipzig in 1835 and joined the Young Germans there. He quickly gained fame with his passionate revolutionary poems. In this, his best-known work, he presents harrowing images of the misery of the proletarians and escalates to flaming calls for class hatred. - Some brown spotting. - Bookplate.

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