Selected Poems

by Bertolt Brecht

Book Overview

Although he is best known in the United States for his theater works, Bertolt Brecht is considered one of the greatest of modern German poets. He is supreme among modern poets in any language for his simple, direct, powerful style, which combines poetic sensibility and social consciousness. After a period of expressionistic writing in the 1920's Brecht reacted against the tradition of romantic individualism and set out to strip poetry of ornamentation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156806460
• ISBN13: 9780156806466
• Release Date: March 1971
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"