Sonnets from Venice (1914)

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• Seventeen sonnets of Venice's landmarks, history, and art. The final two poems are to a Venetian nobleman.

To Cardenio (1919) Ithica, New York.

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• Eight sonnets from Nov 1822-May 1823. All are love poems to a male figure, Cardenio, who Prime-Stevenson identifies from Platen's diaries as a law student possibly named "Hoffman" at Würzburg University, the school Platen attended following his time in the military.

To Karl Theodor German (1920)

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• TW: Brief suicidal ideation

• Twenty-three sonnets from early 1826. All are love poems—several dealing with rejection—to German, who was a theological student Platen met briefly in November 1825 and again in January 1826.

Miscellaneous Sonnets (1921)

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Sonnets to Literary Personages (1922)

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Also see:

• "The Life and Diary of an Uranian Poet: August von Platen (1796-1835)" in Edward Prime-Stevenson's The Intersexes (1910).

• Manuscripts, diaries, letters, and other papers of Platen are scanned and available at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

• Von Platen's German Wikisource.

Reginald BancroftCooke:

• Was also the author of a volume of imperialist war poetry, Some Sonnets of a Passing Epoch (1925), which features his experience in Ypres, Artois, and Vimy Ridge.

• Timothy D'Arch Smith in his Love in Earnest (1970) claimed that Bancroft Cooke may have been the editor of Men and Boys, a man who was said to be an "American 'technical man'" (186-7). However, he also suggests that Edmund Edwinson [sic] was the editor on page 159 based on a note signed "Ed" discussing the development of the 1926 book. The editor has since been identified as Edward Mark Slocum using the name Edmund Edwinstone (An Arcadian Photographer in Manhattan: Edward Mark Slocum (2011) by Donald A. Rosenthal)