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Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956

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by: Bertolt Brecht See Larger Image Used Price: $51.00 Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9780878300723 ISBN: 0878300724 Label: Theatre Arts Book Manufacturer: Theatre Arts Book Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 564 Publication Date: October 07, 1997 Publisher: Theatre Arts Book Studio: Theatre Arts Book Related Items: Brecht Collected Plays: Two: Man equals Man, The Elephant Calf, The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and The Seven Deadly Sins (World Classics) (Vol 2) Society of the Spectacle The Great Transformation Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: "...this impressive selection of Bertolt Brecht's poetry...roughly 500 poems...shows convincingly that his ouevre is one of the major poetic achievements of the present century. The editing, with excellent notes, excerpts from Brecht's own views about poetry and Mr. Willett's concise introduction is exemplary. Most important, the translations by 35 poets, among them H.R. Hayes, Peter Levi, Christopher Middleton, and Naomi Replansky, maintain a high standard of accuracy and often convey a very clear idea of the texture and feeling of the German." --Stephen Spender, The New York Times Book Review Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Brilliant poems These poems are brilliant and inspiring because they were written by a socialist. They were written to make you think about the system. Questions by a Worker Who Reads is one of my favourite poems. The freeways, offices, electricity system and everything else in our civilization were not built by politicians or company executives - they were built by workers. Rating: - Brecht's poetry may be greater than his plays. Bertolt Brecht has acquired the same status as those other artists whose work is known, but not appreciated. Like Faulkner, Joyce and Proust, he has become transmuted into an adjective; even worse, he has followers who describe themselves as "Brechtian" and who are happy to discuss his theories of drama instead of the dramas themselves. But things get even worse when you get closer to the man himself, for there is a wealth of evidence that "der arme B.B." was, in fact, a conscienceless thief who ... Read More

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