Else Lasker-Schuler (1869 1945) was a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment of her poetry in English. The aim of the author, a practising psychologist at the time of this book's original publication, in this study of the poet's life, was to see poetry as an expression of the deeper urges of the psyche. The book takes as a point of departure Peter Hille's remark that Lasker-Schuler was a 'Sappho whose world had broken apart'. Her world of experience was a constant swing between extremes: an intense longing for communication which,...
Else Lasker-Schuler (1869 1945) was a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment of her poe...
