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The collected poems of Bertolt Brecht / translated and edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine with the assistance of Charlotte Ryland.
Van Pelt Library PT2603.R397 A2 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- German poetry.
- German poetry--Translations into English.
- German poetry--20th century.
- Local Subjects:
- German poetry.
- German poetry--Translations into English.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 1284 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2019]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Part I Early Poems: The Domestic Breviary and Other Poems, 1913-1924
- Uncollected Poems 1913-1918 p. 4
- Songs for the Guitar by Bert Brecht and His Friends p. 47
- Psalms p. 53
- Uncollected Poems 1919-1924 p. 73
- Bertolt Brecht's Domestic Breviary p. 161
- Part II The Berlin Years: 1925-1933
- Uncollected Poems 1925-1926 p. 256
- Augsburg Sonnets p. 294
- The Reader for City Dwellers p. 309
- Uncollected Poems 1927-1930 p. 344
- Songs and Verses from Kuhle Wampe and The Mother p. 405
- Uncollected Poems 1931-1933 p. 417
- Part III Poems Of Exile: Svendborg Poems and Other Poems, 1933-1938
- Uncollected Poems 1933-1934 p. 462
- Songs from Round Heads and Pointed Heads p. 501
- Uncollected Poems 1934-1936 p. 509
- Poems for Margarete Steffin, 1932-1937 p. 573
- Poems from the German War Primer Complex p. 590
- Uncollected Poems 1936-1937 p. 594
- Some Poems for Ruth Berlau p. 607
- Poems on Señora Carrar p. 614
- Uncollected Poems 1937-1938 p. 619
- Svendborg Poems p. 649
- Part IV The War Years: Poems in Europe and America, 1938-1945
- Studies p. 741
- Uncollected Poems 1939-1940 p. 750
- Steffin Collection p. 787
- Songs for Life of Galileo, Mother Courage, The Good Person of Szechwan, and Other Plays p. 807
- Poems for Margarete Steffin, 1938-1941 p. 818
- Children's Crusade 1939 p. 824
- Uncollected Poems 1941-1942 p. 831
- Chinese Poems p. 865
- Hollywood Elegies p. 874
- Uncollected Poems 1943-1945 p. 877
- Part V After The War: Buckow Elegies and Other Late Poems, 1945-1956
- Uncollected Late Poems p. 914
- Buckow Elegies p. 1011
- Uncollected Poems 1953-1956 p. 1024.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index of titles and first lines.
- ISBN:
- 9780871407672
- 0871407671
- OCLC:
- 1057243842
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