Victor Benjamin Neuburg

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Victor Benjamin Neuburg (born May 6, 1883 in Islington , † May 31, 1940 in London ) was an English poet and writer . He also wrote on theosophy and occultism . He worked with Aleister Crowley and edited the early works of Pamela Hansford Johnson and Dylan Thomas .

Early life

Neuburg grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. His father, Carl Neuburg, who was born in Pilsen , Bohemia , in 1857 and was a commission agent based in Vienna , left the family shortly after the birth of his son. Victor was born by his mother Jeanette Neuburg, b. Jacobs (1855–1939), and raised his maternal aunts. He studied medieval and modern languages ​​at the City of London School and Trinity College (Cambridge) .

Relationship with Aleister Crowley

In 1908 Neuburg came into contact with Crowley through John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966), also a poet who had read some of Neuburg's works in the Agnostic Journal. Crowley described him as an agnostic , vegetarian , mystic, and Tolstoyan . One who refused to wear a hat and who didn't wash. But also as one of the most good-natured people with the most extraordinary laugh that he had ever known. Crowley initiated Neuburg in his magical order , the A∴A∴ , in which he was given the magical name “Frater Omnia Vincam (I will defeat everything)”. Crowley began a sex-magical relationship with Neuburg. In 1909 Crowley and Neuburg went to Algeria . They set out for the desert, where they performed a series of rituals based on the Enochian system of John Dee , which were later written down in The Vision and the Voice: Liber CDXVIII . Amid these rituals, Crowley introduced the ideas of sex and Magic together and performed his first "Sex Magick " ritual. Neuburg's collection of poems The Triumph of Pan (1910) comes shortly after these events and shows the clear influence of Crowley.

Crowley was very impressed by Neuburg's poetic talent:

“... over the next few years he produced some of the finest poetry that England can boast of. He had an extraordinary sensitivity to rhythm, an incomparable sense of perception, an incomparable purity and intensity of passion and a remarkable command of the English language. "

Back in London, Neuburg showed potential as a dancer, so Crowley gave him a lead role in his proto-performance artwork Rites of Eleusis. In 1914, Crowley and Neuburg reunited in a sexual magical ritual known as "the Paris Working".

The Wine Press and The Poet's Corner

From 1916 Neuburg served in the British Army. After the end of the First World War he moved to Steyning in West Sussex , where he ran a small press , the wine press. In 1920 he published a collection of ballads and other verses under the title Lillygay . Many of them were taken from previous ballad collections. In 1923 Peter Warlock set five of these verses to music under the same title.

From 1933, Neuburg published a column in a British newspaper, the Sunday Referee , with the title “The Poet's Corner”. Here he promoted the next generation by awarding weekly prizes. One award went to then-unknown Dylan Thomas and the Sunday Referee editor sponsored Thomas' first book.

Next life

Neuburg married Kathleen Rose Goddard in 1921. The marriage was finally dissolved. They had a son, Victor Edward Neuburg (1924–1996), who was a writer for English literature.

Neuburg later began a relationship with Runia Tharpe and moved to Swiss Cottage to live with her.

In 1937 Jean Overton Fuller submitted a poem to "The Poet's Corner" and was accepted into Neuburg's circle to eventually become his biographer.

Victor Benjamin Neuburg died of tuberculosis at 57 .

Works

  • The Green Garland (1908)
  • The Triumph of Pan , London: Equinox (1910)
  • Lillygay: An Anthology of Anonymous Poems , Steyning: Vine Press (1920)
  • Swift Wings: Songs in Sussex , Steyning: Vine Press (1921)
  • Songs of the Groves , Steyning: Vine Press (1921)
  • Larkspur: A Lyric Garland , Steyning: Vine Press (1922)

literature

  • Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg: Aleister Crowley's Magical Brother and Lover, Mandrake 2005, ISBN 978-1869928797

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, St. Martin's Press 2014, 184
  2. ^ Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg: Aleister Crowley's Magical Brother and Lover, Mandrake 2005, ISBN 978-1869928797
  3. ^ A b Marco Pasi, Aleister Crowley and the temptation of politics. Ares-Verlag, Graz 2006, ISBN 3-902475-14-5 , page 41
  4. ↑ Confessions 2, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, Eine Autohagiographie, Stein der Weisen / Bohmeier, Bergen ad Dumme 1986 ISBN 978-3894230135 page 136
  5. ↑ Aleister Crowley the Big Beast 666. Life and Magick, 1982, p. 82
  6. ↑ Marco Pasi, Aleister Crowley and the temptation of politics. Ares-Verlag, Graz 2006, ISBN 3-902475-14-5 page 42
  7. ^ The Vision & the Voice. German: The vision and the voice. Liber XXX aerum vel saeculi CCCCXVIII. Translated and commented by Marcus M. Jungkurth. Kersken-Canbaz, Bergen ad Dumme 1986, ISBN 3-89423-004-5 .
  8. ↑ Confessions 2, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, An Autohagiography, Stone of the Wise / Bohmeier, Bergen ad Dumme 1986 ISBN 978-3894230135, pages 137-138
  9. ↑ Marco Pasi, Aleister Crowley and the temptation of politics. Ares-Verlag, Graz 2006, ISBN 3-902475-14-5 page 44, 163
  10. ^ Support The Guardian: Jean Overton Fuller . ( theguardian.com [accessed June 20, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Neuburg, Victor Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Islington
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1940
Place of death London