Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile » (Reissue)

In this volume, contributors analyse Brecht's Svendborg Poems critically and historically.

Introduction;

1. Svendborg 1938 David Midgley;
2. The usefulness of poetry David Constantine;
3. 'Visit to a banished poet': Brecht's Svendborg Poems and the voices of exile Tom Kuhn;
4. Exile in 'Danish Siberia': the Soviet Union in the Svendborg Poems Katharine Hodgson;
5. Strength and clarity: Brecht, Auden and the 'true Democratic style' Tony Davies;
6. Satire as propaganda: Brecht's 'Deutsche Satieren' for Deutscher Freiheitssender Michael Minden;
7. The fourth door: difficulties with the truth in the Svendborg Poems Joyce Crick;
8. The uses of rhetoric in Brecht's Svendborg Poems Anna Carrdus;
9. Assuaging the anxiety of influence: poetic authority and power in the Svendborg Poems Elizabeth Boa;
10. Figures of memory in the 'Chroniken' Anthony Phelan;
11. The poet in time Ronald Speirs;
12. Those born later than Brecht: the reception of 'An die Nachgeborenen' Karen Leeder; Bibliography.