Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521782159)

Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. This volume is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. The contributors analyze Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later German poets.

Author: Ronald Speirs
ISBN-10: 0521782155
ISBN-13: 9780521782159
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2000
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.80w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2001 pg. 1633