Ebook: The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht
Author: Brecht Bertolt, Constantine David, Kuhn Tom, Ryland Charlotte
- Tags: German poetry, German poetry--20th century, German poetry--Translations into English, Translations, German poetry -- Translations into English, German poetry -- 20th century
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
- City: New York
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
One of the most important poetry publications in years, the Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht finally appears in English for the first time.
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 2,000 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...Download the book The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht for free or read online
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