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Empedocles' Shoe: Essays on Brecht's Poetry
edited by Tom Kuhn and Karen Leeder
with a Foreword by David Constantine
Brecht is increasingly recognised as one of the most important lyric voices of
the 20th century. Alongside Rilke he is honoured as Germany's greatest
modern poet. Yet his poetry is relatively little known in the English speaking
world. This title takes its cue from an allegorical poem about the artist's
legacy and looks at how poets and translators might read Brecht today. The
volume arises from a seminar held at Oxford University in 1998 to mark the
centenary of Brecht's birth and includes seminal contributions from a range of
experts from Britain and Germany. It sheds new light on individual poems as
well as giving an overview of Brecht's poetry from the earliest days to the
GDR years. The book is illustrated and contains a great many Brecht poems
in parallel translation and in new translations, along with new Brechtian lyrics
by major British poets, such as Tom Paulin, Jamie McKendrick, Derek
Mahon and David Constantine. The critical essays are by Tom Kuhn, Ronald
Speirs, Hans-Harald Müller, Hilda Brown, David Midgley, Elizabeth Boa,
Anthony Phelan, David Constantine, Ray Ockenden, Erdmut Wizisla and
Karen Leeder.
Publication date 20 June 2002
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