The Collected Poems of Bertolt BrechtLiveright Publishing, 04.12.2018 - 1312 Seiten Times Literary Supplement • Books of the Year ("The most generous available English collection of Brecht’s poetry.") A landmark literary event, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is the most extensive English translation of Brecht’s poetry to date. Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very rare phenomenon, a great poet, for whom poetry is an almost everyday visitation and drawing of breath.” Hugely prolific, Brecht also wrote more than two thousand poems—though fewer than half were published in his lifetime, and early translations were heavily censored. Now, award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have heroically translated more than 1,200 poems in the most comprehensive English collection of Brecht’s poetry to date. Written between 1913 and 1956, these poems celebrate Brecht’s unquenchable “love of life, the desire for better and more of it,” and reflect the technical virtuosity of an artist driven by bitter and violent politics, as well as by the untrammeled forces of love and erotic desire. A monumental achievement and a reclamation, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is a must-have for any lover of twentieth-century poetry. |
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PART II | |
Songs and Verses from Kuhle Wampe and The Mother | |
Augsburg Sonnets | |
Steffin Collection | |
THE WAR YEARS | |
Poems for Margarete Steffin 19381941 | |
Childrens Crusade 1939 | |
Uncollected Poems 19411942 | |
Chinese Poems | |
Hollywood Elegies | |
PART V | |
The Reader for City Dwellers | |
Uncollected Poems 19311933 | |
PART III | |
Poems for Margarete Steffin 19321937 | |
Poems from the German War Primer Complex | |
PART IV | |
Studies | |
Uncollected Poems 19391940 | |
Buckow Elegies and Other Late Poems 19451956 | |
Buckow Elegies | |
Notes | |
Poems in Europe and America 19381945 | |
Index of English Titles and First Lines | |
Index of German Titles and First Lines | |
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