A key critical work bringing relevance to Brecht's poetry in the 21st century
Brecht is increasingly recognized as one of the most important lyric voices of the 20th century. Alongside Rilke he is honored as Germany's greatest modern poet. Yet his poetry is relatively little known in the English speaking world. This title takes its cue from an allegorical poem about the artist's legacy and looks at how poets and translators might read Brecht today. The volume arises from a seminar held at Oxford University in 1998 to mark the centenary of Brecht's birth and includes seminal...
A key critical work bringing relevance to Brecht's poetry in the 21st century
Brecht is increasingly recognized as one of the most important ...
This is an introduction to Evelyn Schlag, one of the most critically acclaimed European poets, translated into English with critical and biographical material.
This is an introduction to Evelyn Schlag, one of the most critically acclaimed European poets, translated into English with critical and biographical ...
The avant-garde writer and director Bertolt Brecht left the West for good in 1949, returning to East Berlin and founding the Berliner Ensemble. While he quickly became identified internationally as the cultural figurehead of the young socialist state, his relationship with the authorities was always complex, and he was increasingly marginalized by restrictive and authoritarian structures of power. It was only after his death that the regime sought to elevate him as a socialist classic - a shift that entailed the selective appropriation of his legacy and the development of authorized modes of...
The avant-garde writer and director Bertolt Brecht left the West for good in 1949, returning to East Berlin and founding the Berliner Ensemble. While ...
Michael Kruger is a major figure in modern German poetry, one of its great editors and leading practitioners. In 1993 Carcanet published Diderot's Cat, Michael Kruger's original Selected Poems, which drew on thirteen collections. This new edition, in German and English, incorporates portions of that book with selections from five later books, translated by Karen Leeder and Richard Dove. Introducing Diderot's Cat, Dove declared, 'If the recent German Zeitgeist could speak, it might sound a good deal like Michael Kruger.' For his American editor and publisher the poet Stanley Moss he is 'a...
Michael Kruger is a major figure in modern German poetry, one of its great editors and leading practitioners. In 1993 Carcanet published Diderot's Cat...
This volume picks up where Schlag's Selected Poems (2004) broke off, covering a selection of poems taken from her two most recent collections of poetry in German.
This volume picks up where Schlag's Selected Poems (2004) broke off, covering a selection of poems taken from her two most recent collections of poetr...
